My methodology (as Amy rather generously terms it), was simply to get as many informed opinions as I could — from blogs, bracketology broadcasts, newspapers, friends, strangers on the train, etc. — and leaven them heavily with my own prejudices.
A18 New Intelligence Office Opens Top intelligence officials announced the creation of a new agency, the Open Source Center, to gather and analyze information from the Web, broadcasts, newspapers and other unclassified sources.
"What really shattered me was when all of a sudden this was spread all over the world," in broadcasts, newspaper headlines and in a torrent of messages on social media sites, including Twitter.
Mr. Martin said in a telephone conference call with reporters that his proposed order would enable the company to complete the buyout next month by granting Tribune a temporary exemption while the agency considers new rules that would loosen the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership restrictions in the 20 largest markets, which he said he expected to complete next month.
That resulted in a broadcast ban – newspapers could print statements from restricted groups' spokesmen but broadcasters could not use their voices on screen – that lasted from 1988 to 1994.
The company, controlled by Rupert Murdoch, owns a variety of media assets, including the 20th Century Fox film studio, the Fox broadcast network, newspapers and cable channels.
In addition, the firm found that people spent less time with media that have significant advertiser support -- broadcast TV, newspapers, magazines and radio.
At the midpoint of the twentieth century, radio was the dominant broadcast medium, newspapers were the dominant news medium, and movies were the most popular form of visual entertainment.
But that's unlikely in Connecticut this time around, according to media analysts, broadcast owners, newspaper publishers, and industry observers.
The proposals may have significant implications for several pending and recently completed mergers in the broadcast and newspaper industries.
