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Football Friday nights light up Erie newsrooms

September 3rd, 2010 joel

“In Virginia, high school football is a way of life. It’s bigger than Christmas Day.” ~ Sheryl Yoast, Remember The Titans

This fall, replace “In Virginia” with “For Erie media.”

Erie’s newspaper, television and radio stations are attacking tonight’s launch of the high school football season with an unprecedented investment of resources.

District 10 Kickoff 2010

Cover of District 10 Kickoff 2010 published by the Erie Times-News

Actually, the work started months ago, as the Erie Times-News sports and special project divisions joined forces on the 112-page Kickoff magazine. Billed as “packed with information on each team in D-10 and McDowell, the first-of-its-kind publication promises to fulfill every District 10 football junkie’s needs!” Ingeniously, the magazine is being distributed far beyond the newspaper’s normal delivery footprint at Country Fair stores and costs $5.00. There is even a Facebook fan page of the mag.

So that regular subscribers don’t feel left out, the ETN on Thursday published their special high school football preview issue of the weekly Varsity tabloid, with another 48 pages of schedules, rankings and predictions. All of this data is also available on GoErie.com, where they will again provide ongoing scores and commentary Friday nights via their live blog, on the Varsity page of the site.

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Deep Background for July 25-31, 2010

July 25th, 2010 joel

Andrew Breitbart and his extensively edited YouTube video of Shirley Sherrod is the latest example of social media leading the “old” media around by the nose. Maybe it’s because of the mixing of entertainment into the newscast, or the budget cutbacks of real journalists, or even an inferiority complex and envy of the new viral media, but major vetting procedures were missed this week in the rush to judgment by Fox and the government. A whole lot of people messed up.

In Erie, its cutbacks and the economy which causes us to endure less than stellar picture quality from our TV stations, the same DJ voicetracking on multiple radio stations of different formats, and single reporters covering the entire local beat on the weekends for the newspaper. Lots of opportunities for messing up.

We can’t go back to the old days, but as media consumers we can demand better. Let your voice be heard hear on this open forum; leave a comment below, send me an e-mail or Tweet (don’t forget to follow @pressandtower).

Embrace the chaos!

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Top Erie media stories of 2009

January 1st, 2010 joel

Happy New Year and welcome to the “teens!”

As was the case with much of the last ten years, the decade ended last night with the media front and center of culture’s conversation. With top-talker Rush Limbaugh finally released from a Honolulu hospital, and Fox viewers in O&O markets thankful for a momentary reprieve from losing their football, media doings are never far from top-of-mind.

Here’s the top stories we were talking about in 2009, by month:

  • January: local TV stations and the Times-News cover the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20th
  • February: longtime Erie broadcaster and cancer machine inventor John Kanzius succumbs to cancer on February 18th
  • March: Nancy Dymond replaces David Calabrese as market manager of the Connoisseur Media radio cluster in Erie
  • April: a video capture of an apparently intoxicated off-duty Erie Police officer uploaded to YouTube created a local and national controversy about police relations with the minority community, and the new reality of social media
  • May: Lilly Broadcasting merged the newsrooms of WICU and WSEE, resulting in the elimination of about a dozen off-air and on-air jobs
  • June: WICU is the final TV station to switch off their analog transmitter and put Erie completely into the digital television age
  • Wards react to the reveal July: The seven day build of a home for Erie’s Clara Ward culminated in the July 2nd reveal of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house
  • August: Star 104/WRTS increased it’s dominance in Erie radio as the Spring 2009 Arbitron ratings were released
  • September: Former Erie Congressman Phil English began his high profile blog “Presque Isle to the Potomac” on GlobalErie.com
  • October: The Erie Times-News was named Newspaper of the Year by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
  • November: Erie’s most-visited media website, GoErie.com underwent a major redesign
  • December: The weekend of December 12th and 13th turned out to be one of national media attention on Erie, as Saturday Night Live mentioned the fictional “Erie Chamber of Commerce” as part of a PGA spoof over the Tiger Woods controversy, then a two-hour special episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition showcased the work of thousands of volunteers impacting an eastside Erie neighborhood.

Next week, we’ll talk with one of Erie’s top media watchers about the past year and what we might see in the new year. Stay tuned.

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Hijinxs at the National Press Club

October 20th, 2009 joel

I think that we have entered a new “silly season” in our media world. On Monday, an activist group called The Yes Men pawned themselves off as spokesmen for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and presented a reversal in the group’s position on climate change. In the middle of the presser, a real representative of the Chamber shows up and claims that the people at the podium are frauds.

Meanwhile, news agencies and wire services were duped for a moment, making for some confusing news people and amazing video. Here is the YouTube from people associated with the Yes Men group, so keep that in mind.

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Deep Background for May 24-30, 2009

May 24th, 2009 joel

The Press and Tower readers spent the week reeling from the news of layoffs resulting from the WSEE/WICU merger. We learned this week that conversations about the merger began last summer.

Meanwhile, we come to realize that a use of new media may have been the deciding factor in the change of  the administration of Erie County. The Buzz Andrezewski YouTube’s didn’t get Mark DiVecchio in trouble in the first place, but the videos’ content may have been just enough to drive down his (and Buzz’s) negatives, leaving Democrats to vote for Barry Grossman.

All this to say that if you miss a day of The Press and Tower, you might have to play major “catch-up”.

You have the agenda when it comes to this open comment forum. You can always private message me at joel@nataliemedia.com or direct message me on Twitter @pressandtower.

Embrace the chaos!

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What the…Buzz?

May 19th, 2009 joel

When we talk around here about politicians and other public figures leveraging the new media, we’re not exactly talking about this. Anthony “Buzz” Andrezeski, in his run for County Executive, has turned to talking to the voters directly through Christian Lestat Bussiere and his Spotlight TV.

Both the content and the context of these videos have become the biggest controversy of today’s Municipal Primary election.

Even though our media-saturated culture isn’t shocked by too much we view, it was a jaw-dropping moment for me when in a video supposedly created to “stand up” for county controller Sue Weber, Andrezeski repeats a rumor about Weber and her private activities that supposedly came from the current County Executive, Mark DiVecchio. Beyond the salacious, what Andrezeski is talking about in the at least nine videos are rambling accusations, alleged conspiracies, and nasty name-calling.

Here’s one of the more tame videos, where Buzz answers his critics from the media and blogosphere:

Then there’s the context of Spotlight TV, where the open to most of the videos is a loop of a clip from the drunk Erie Cop video to the tune of “do the spanky leg.” Citizen journalism is new to Christian Lestat Bussiere, whose YouTube user name is “ErieParties“. He’s more comfortable as a Jeff Spicoli wannabe sharing his weekend exploits than trying to be the next Carol Pella.

Buzz said that he wanted to reach out to young people, to a new audience to make his case why he should be the next County Executive. Dude, this is not how you do it. He could have created his own YouTube channel, had a friend with a camera help him make quality position videos with good sound and no profanity. He could have Twittered before each public appearance and Facebook friended the entire county.

Yeah, whatever.

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P&T Interview: Morning’s Live

May 5th, 2009 joel

In early April, after we watched all of the preparations and then the live show from back stage, I had a chance to sit down and talk to the Mornings Live team from WSEE to talk about their show and how it affects their lives. Raychel, Ray, Bob and Megan share some of the special challenges of going to work at an early hour, and how they’ve embraced social media to have a strong connection with their audience. They take on some of the misconceptions people have about their work, and talk about the future of the show.

Given the 10 minute limitations of YouTube, we’ll have the entire unedited interview available as an audio podcast shortly. Enjoy!

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