FMC Fast Chat

Join us for this week's episode, as Dr. Jamie Cohen, Head of Education for Digital Void (helping people bridge the gap between digital life and everyday culture), explains the internet's profound impact on reality.

We touch on topics such as:

The dangers of AI

Internet culture = Culture

The Demi-media filter

How internet events are affecting the news

Greta Thunberg and pizza boxes

Useful links:

https://www.jamesncohen.com/

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Here are a few tips to help the public navigate today’s media landscape with ease. Let us know what you thought of this episode and we will release more similar content!

A few of the many tips given in this FMC chat:

Set a time limit

Get news first, opinion and commentary second

Read more than you watch or listen

Protect the children

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New York news icon Rosanna Scotto dishes up everything from life lessons to cooking advice in this fast-paced and wide-ranging interview. Following the release of her new book, ‘Meatballs, Mangia & Memories,’ Scotto talks about the impact of the pandemic on her family life and restaurant business, Fresco by Scotto, along with that of her work as a journalist and co-anchor of Good Day New York. Lots of juggling happens behind the scenes (get a tip or two on time management!) but at the heart of it all is an attitude of gratitude.

We touch on topics such as:

About the book, Meatballs, Mangia and Memories

The pandemic’s impact on the family business

The need for reinvention

Learn Rosanna’s No. 1 life lesson

How journalism has changed

Useful links and resources:

Rosanna's Instagram

The Scotto Sister's Instagram

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Get an insider’s view of what will make business and economic news headlines in 2023 in Long Island New York news, as well as how reporters and editors go about gathering news for stories both local and national.

We were joined by our host Katherine Heaviside (President, Epoch 5 Public Relations), alongside Joe Dowd (Editor & Associate Publisher at Long Island Business News & Editor at The Journal Record, Oklahoma City), (Margaret Corvini, Assistant Managing Editor for business at Newsday), and Ruth Simon (Senior Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal covering small business & entrepreneurship).

We touch on topics such as:

- Affordable housing

- Economy

- Small business

- Big Tech’s impact on news

- more!

This discussion was part of the Fair Media Council annual event, The News Conference: Real & Powerful. The event brings the best in news together to engage in open dialogue with news consumers to build mutual understanding and respect.

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In this episode of FMC Fast Chat, the uber-successful, incredibly happy, and endlessly hungry Phil Rosenthal offers up some food for thought on a few things he knows best. There's writing: He's got an instant best-seller. There's fame: He explains how Netflix's streaming of Somebody Feed Phil has taken his career to a new level. There's his new comedy tour: He sticks around so fans can get pictures. And, of course, there's food: Each time he picks up a sandwich, he brings the world a little closer together. Last but not least, there's curiosity and education. (All those classes they made him take at Hofstra? Here's what he thinks about that.) Grab a snack and take a listen.

Phil Rosenthal is the creator, writer, host and executive producer of Somebody Feed Phil, the most popular food and travel show on Netflix. Somebody Feed Phil the book is now available and the comedy show is currently selling out arenas.

The Fair Media Council is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. FMC is one of the oldest, most successful media watchdog organizations in the country. FMC is headquartered on Long Island, N.Y. Rosenthal will be appearing on Long Island at The Paramount on Nov. 13, 2022.

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These Long Island news leaders share their thoughts on what will be in Long Island’s news throughout the year. In this discussion, they pinpoint the major issues and key people that they are keeping their eyes on.

We were joined by our host for this episode, Chris Wright, alongside Chris Vaccaro (Digital Vice President, Altice USA), Diane Masciale (Vice President & General Manager, WLIW21 & WLIW-FM), Don Hudson (Editor, Newsday), Pam Robinson (Publisher, Huntingtonnow.com) and Michael Dawidziak (Strategic Planning Systems, Inc.).

We touch on topics such as:

- Long Island's housing issues

- The economy

- Food insecurity issues

- Politics

- Taxes

This discussion was part of the Fair Media Council annual event, The News Conference: Real & Powerful. The event brings the best in news together to engage in open dialogue with news consumers to build mutual understanding and respect.

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What to expect in New York regional news in 2023? Get the scoop on what’s happening in Albany, New York City, and Long Island before you hear it in the news from these insiders.

We were joined by our host Tim Scheld, Moderator, alongside Bernadette Hogan, City Hall Bureau Chief, New York Post; Katie Honan, Senior Reporter, The City and Dr. Lee Mirigoff, Director, Marist Institute for Public Opinion, Marist College.

We touch on topics such as:

- Adams/Hochul

- Bail reform

- Casinos

- Housing

This discussion was part of the Fair Media Council annual event, The News Conference: Real & Powerful. The event brings the best in news together to engage in open dialogue with news consumers to build mutual understanding and respect.

For more information on the Fair media council, click the following link... https://www.fairmediacouncil.org/news-conference-real-powerful-2023/

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In this segment of the discussion, we went beyond the “thoughts and prayers” soundbite to discuss how the news media is covering gun violence in America today. Expert speakers offered insight and first-hand accounts. They tackled the issue in real-time to address why gun violence is on a northward trajectory in this country, and what communities are doing to counter it. 

We were joined by our host, Jaci Clement (CEO & Executive Director, Fair Media Council ) briefly, alongside Abene Clayton (specializes in covering gun violence in communities), Dr. Prince (Pediatric surgeon), Mary Claire Molloy (was in an active shooter situation), and Dr. Reynolds (a noted advocate in health and human services).

We touch on topics such as:

- The Problem of Gun Violence

- What news media leaves out of the story

- Tactics communities are using

- Generational differences in views on guns

This discussion was part of the Fair Media Council annual event, The News Conference: Real & Powerful. The event brings the best in news together to engage in open dialogue with news consumers to build mutual understanding and respect.

For more information on the Fair media council, click the following link... https://www.fairmediacouncil.org/news-conference-real-powerful-2023/

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This discussion was part of the Fair Media Council annual event, The News Conference: Real & Powerful 2023. The event brings the best in news together to engage in open dialogue with news consumers to build mutual understanding and respect.

Smart, savvy and connected, these noted journalists pull back the curtain on D.C.’s wheeling and dealing — no matter what side of the aisle it’s happening on. No topic is off-limits. Find out who and what they’re keeping tabs on for 2023.

In this segment of the discussion, we are joined by our host, Jaci Clement (CEO & Executive Director, Fair Media Council ), alongside Tom Brune (Washington Bureau Chief, Newsday), Robert A. George (Opinion Columnist, Bloomberg) and Dave Levinthal (Editor in Chief, Raw Story).

We touch on topics such as:

The Santos Story

Where Local News Ends and National News Begins

People to Keep an Eye on in 2023

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As the investigations pile up into who George Santos really is, one thing is certain: He is most definitely the poster boy for everything wrong with today's news media.

The fact that Long Island is the scene of the crime makes it smart all the more. Our backyard, and the people who live here, deserve far better than what the news has been serving up. 

Let's unpack this.

From CNN to The Atlantic, commentaries in the news over the past week have called out Long Island's news leader, Newsday, for missing this major Long Island story, which was broken by The New York Times. For those wondering why the dead tree sector carries the burden it's because historically, the news ecosystem has relied on newspapers to break the heavy stories, and looked to television and radio news to provide updates. 

But the talk of how Long Island news media, as a whole, missed this story isn't accurate, because one teeny, tiny local newspaper with a print circulation reported to be 3,200, put forth a scathing editorial in its Oct. 20 issue. It begins: "This newspaper would like to endorse a Republican for US Congress in NY3 (Oyster Bay, N Hempstead, NE Queens). But the GOP nominee - George Santos - is so bizarre, unprincipled and sketchy that we cannot."

That opening paragraph from The North Shore Leader proved the kindest. The next five paragraphs detailed many of the issues for which Santos is now under investigation.

So how is it The North Shore Leader -- with a masthead boasting a total of eight staffers -- had the goods on Santos?

Maybe they paid attention to what the neighbors were saying. If word of Santos' ability to rock tall tales was long an open secret, why didn't that usher in scrutiny by the media before the election took place? Maybe the staff at The North Shore Leader paid attention to what was heard on the street instead of what was happening inside the media bubble. 

Maybe it didn't occur to them that size doesn't matter. Knowledge of the subject matter, dedication, and being able to follow a story wherever it leads has nothing to do with how many people are in a newsroom or the size of a budget. It does mean the reporters need to show up to find out what's actually going on and cultivate sources, instead of making a couple of calls from home and filing a story that fulfills a preconceived notion of what supposedly happened.

Maybe they understand their role. For newsies who have forgotten, or for the newbies who have yet to be told: First and foremost, your job is to be the watchdog of government -- including elections, even those you're not interested in. You wrote this one off as being inconsequential? Lesson learned. 

Maybe they haven't given up on journalism. What today's modern media landscape is teeming with is what we can no longer afford, and the headlines in the newsfeeds continue to prove it. News coverage detailing what Santos said years ago that is now believed to be false only highlights the issue at hand: Journalism needs journalists, not stenographers posing as journalists.

Despite all that, the fact is, the only way to find the editorial mentioned here is by knowing where to look. Long Island is home to some of the oldest newspapers in America, and it shows. The North Shore Leader is more than 70 years old and, like many of the local news outlets here, it uses its website to post pdfs of prior issues. This technological sin means the content is not readable by search engines and that, in this era, equates to the news being nonexistent. 

And that explains how this particular piece of news escaped the attention it deserved, but it doesn't explain the lack of journalism at large. 

ABOUT FAIR MEDIA COUNCIL

Headquartered on Long Island, N.Y., the Fair Media Council advocates for quality news and works to create a media-savvy society. Founded in 1979, it has studied the content and character of local news for more than 40 years. It's never seen anything like this.

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