Luckily, Ralph Nader soon offered him a grant to write a media-critique newsletter from his headquarters, in Washington, D.C. Moore had admired Nader since high school, when he heard him speak, and he had helped Nader's people for years, whenever they needed a point man in Flint or Detroit.
Erik Wemple, who writes a media blog for The Washington Post, gave me credit for having "a nose for news," but took issue with the underlying logic of my first post.
"The best comparison for Seed," wrote a media critic, "is the early years of Rolling Stone, when music was less a subject than a lens for viewing culture".
When I started writing a media column seven years ago, parties like these were routine: the magazine business was still on the march and the newspaper business was twice as big as it is now.
But Kyle Orland, a freelance journalist who writes a media coverage column for Gamedaily.com, wondered if that strategy was working, saying that when a large feature is published, it doesn't get read.
The Queensland journalist, who edited Brisbane's Courier Mail and the Australian newspaper for 24 years and now writes a media column in the Australian, describes his relationship with the media proprietor as not close but "friendly and trusting" and says they are of a like mind.
As a fierce believer in multitasking, during the Murdoch years I was on TV, interviewed film stars for Parade and its Sunday audience of 80 million, wrote a media column for Ad Age and published more books.
developed a media strategy in consultation with the two main investigators (M.R. and L.M .. Several weeks before the on-line publication of Discomforting, K.T. wrote a media relations plan and circulated it for feedback.
