Ed Waller, editorial director of C21 Media, which covers global media, said: "The bar has been so visibly raised that it's showing the paucity of characterisation and storyline in the soaps".
But the company had not even checked the local news media, which covered the trial prominently.
The French news media, which covered the killings with breathless nonpartisan zeal, resumed their accustomed political polarization on Thursday.
NowThis Media, which covers the news with videos that are usually around 15 or 30 seconds long, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series C funding.
Westmoreland and the American media, which covered the action extensively often made inevitable comparisons between the actions at Khe Sanh and the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, where a French base had been besieged and ultimately overrun by Viet Minh forces under the command of General Giáp during the First Indochina War.
The six-month program, founded by Silicon Valley investors Chris Redlitz and wife Beverly Parenti, includes twice-weekly training sessions on social media, which covers the basics of Twitter, blogging and Quora, a question-and-answer website that has allowed inmates to enter the world of social media through volunteer intermediaries.
The media firm claims to touch some 150 million per month, via its many online media businesses which cover news, sport, e-commerce and more.
The bloggers have every right to be disgusted with the mainstream media, which once covered every stained dress, cigar and rumor (even giving advice to the parties in a presidential sex scandal); while pretending to be interested only in the "lies," they now deem evidence of lies in a rush to war "not quite so shocking".
Tinker, the micro-blogging topic tracker from Glam Media which we covered in depth last night, is now live.
He's already rolled out a number of new TV spots in the Philadelphia media market, which covers both his core urban supporters and the crucial suburban swing vote, and has embarked on an Iowa-style bus tour of the ground between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
