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Posted on 07/07/2003 9:51:41 AM PDT by Drango
Media Life's
Best of the Best
Whereupon we honor the publishers, editors, magazines and newspapers, producers, shows and web sites that we think have made a difference
By Gene Ely
Media Life recently celebrated its fourth birthday, making us genuinely old folks on the internet, and as the anniversary approached, we had cause to ponder how much we have learned, and more important, by whom we have been most inspired.
Magazines, Media Life included, may pretend to follow their own star -- it would be heresy to admit otherwise -- but the truth is that each day we see things that impress us and inspire us. They inspire us to try harder and to do better, to be more innovative, to see a greater vision than the one sitting at the end of our nose at the moment.
In recognition, we've created our first awards, the Best of the Best, spanning all forms of ad-supported media. Over the past few weeks, since our official birthday of May 17, we've periodically published our initial Best-Ofs, which included Salon, (!)the online magazine, The New York Daily News, the TV show "This Old House," the magazine Budget Living and in a nod to a person, Martha Stewart, for her influence and the influence of her magazine on other titles.
Today, we're publishing the rest of our Best-Ofs for 2003, another seven, and that list includes the magazines The Economist, Blender and ReadyMade, radio's "Marketplace" from Public Radio International and three TV shows, "Alias," "Six Feet Under" and "Angel."
Our tributes include, in some cases, the suggestions of our readers, whom we polled for guidance on our first Best of the Best awards. But more they represent the eclectic tastes of the Media Life staff, rather than simply what's most popular or critically acclaimed.
At the top of the list are our newest Best-Ofs. Below we've reprinted our earlier tributes to Salon, “This Old House,” Budget Living, the New York Daily News and Martha Stewart.
RADIO
'Marketplace'
Producer: Minnesota Public Radio
Unlike many of its stodgier counterparts on public radio and public TV, “Marketplace” covers business and commerce as they ought to be covered: not as egg-headed balance-sheet wrapups, but as human interaction.
For a half-hour each weekday on 355 public radio stations nationwide, "Marketplace" stays on top of the important stuff, but also seeks out the idiosyncratic as well: underground economies, the precarious financial state of America's zoos or a profile of an erotica writer.
Meanwhile, it uses sound and voices to transport the listener to a Baghdad gas station, a Mexican factory or a ranch home in South Dakota. With 5.85 million listeners each week, "Marketplace" has a larger audience than CNN's "Moneyline" or CNBC's "Market Wrap."
PRI has fashioned itself into a formidable rival to the larger and better-known National Public Radio. And where NPR's audience has been steadily aging (as has its sound), PRI is helping turn on a new generation of listeners with young-skewing shows like "This American Life" and "Studio 360." Most people, if they have heard of public radio at all, assume that everything on it is NPR, from Bach to "Car Talk" to Garrison Keillor.
But the competition between NPR and PRI is fierce, if largely unseen. And as programs like "Marketplace" show, that competition is good for listeners.
TELEVISION
'Alias'
Network: ABC
Creator: J.J. Abrams
~SNIP, please go to article to read the rest
My problem with Marketplace is that even a show about business has a liberal slant. If it's about a strike it overreports the union's side. If it's about Ford it's about their wonderful day care center. If it's about McDonalds it's about how "fat" is killing it's bottom line. etc....
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