Local politics garners less TV coverage
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Local TV stations have nearly given up covering local political races and issues, researchers will report Tuesday. In the month leading up to last Election Day, just 8% of the local evening newscasts in 11 of the nation's largest TV markets devoted time to local races and issues, researchers say.
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As Floridians continue to clean up after Hurricane Charley, it would appear politics is far from their minds. Polls and presidential campaigning pale beside
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NEW YORK  - Now that the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary have launched the presidential race, non-news networks are piling on to document an election season seen as just too entertaining to pass up.
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As far as is TV is concerned, much of the country outside of Los Angeles and New York City is flyover territory.
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The nation's radio and television talk shows plan to leave no political stone unturned and no talking head or celebrity uninvited this week.
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One of the problems with the American Presidency is that it tends to eclipse the entire rest of the government in the public eye. People often seem to almost view the Presidency as if it were the government, rather than just one component of many within the government. In particular, the Presidential election is the only one it is possible to get many people to care about. Voter turnout drops precipitously for those elections where the Presidency is not on the ballot; and on those years where it is, the media coverage for the elections of other offices is almost entirely drowned out in the obsessive coverage of the Presidential campaign. But these other elections are no less important, and in many cases are more so. Despite the neglect they receive these elections are just as critical to our democratic process. By ignoring these elections, our nation is closing its eyes to the bulk of that part of government that affects us on a day to day basis. So what I would like to do is open up the floor and ask: What's happening in the local, non-presidential elections in your area this November?What are the important races (Senators, ballot referendums, etc) and what has been happening in them? What is your perspective on these? Let us know. If your familiarity with local politics is less than complete, Project Vote Smart offers a great deal of information on American elections and is a good place to get started.
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By Alan Pergament  What's the future of local television?  It may include launching a local, Google-like search engine, a Health and Wellness Channel, a second 24-hour weather channel, sending news reports from the field using Internet technology and sending the news to cell phones.
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By Lofton, Lynn  Charlie Stogner is on a mission to give television a local face so that communities have local programming. Billing his StogTV as "your local TV channel," he's using the federallymandated local access provision to build a network of community-based television.
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The unpaid mayor of a small English town has applied for unemployment benefits, but been rejected since he spends too much time at mandatory civic events, The Daily Telegraph said.
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The death of China's purged Communist leader Zhao Ziyang gets only limited coverage in the local media.
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One of the biggest complaints made by opposition candidates in Ukraine's presidential election campaign has been lack of access to mass media.
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Regional elections in March will preview coming national elections in which choices will be severely limited at best.
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WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- To those of us who eat, sleep and occasionally drink politics, nearly everything that happens in a presidential campaign is interesting, but very few things are really important.
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CQPolitics.com senior reporter Greg Giroux is off this week on a much-deserved break, during which he hoped Ã¢ÂÂto completely ignore politics and elections, at least for a few days.Ã¢ÂÂ
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Variety - NEW YORK -- George Bush and John Kerry aren't the only ones with their eyes on the White House -- local TV newscasts in cities including L.A. and Gotham are devoting little political attention to anything other than the presidential race, according to a study released Thursday.
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Saturday's prime-time presidential debates from New Hampshire will be less crowded because ABC News is excluding GOP candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel.
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The television airwaves are public, but the TV networks are insisting that interviews broadcast on them are not. Networks are objecting to political advertisements that contain clips of Sen. John Kerry or President Bush on news shows such as NBC's "Meet the Press" or ABC's "Good Morning America."