Are you ready for O’ReillyVille? OK, maybe not, but News Corp has announced that they are aiming to build their own social games company. This was announced by Jonathan Miller, News Corp’s head of digital media, to Reuters today.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. According to Hitwise, the Websites of four news programs cracked the top 10 of most visited cable shows last week. When children’s programs are excluded, Lou Dobbs‘ CNN.com page was 7th, Keith Olbermann‘s msnbc.com page was 8th, Bill O’Reilly‘s FoxNews.com page was 9th, and CNN.com’s Larry King page was 10th.
As for broadcast programs, Fox.com’s American Idol page was #1 again followed by NBC.com’s Biggest Loser site.
Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck is the talk of the cable news world today, with a front page story in the New York Times about his ratings dominance and the reigning ratings king, Bill O’Reilly, weighing in as well.
As Beck’s 9/12 Project galvanizes fans online (The912Project.com) behind the FNC host’s nine principles and 12 values, TheDailyBeast.com has a different take — the “nine principles behind [Beck's] meteoric rise.”
Those include such principles as “I Will Constantly Reaffirm My Ineptitude” and “I Will Keep the Spirit of Joe McCarthy Alive.” Each principle comes with video evidence.
Click continued to see two of the video compilations, or check them all out at TheDailyBeast.com…
WaPo’s Howard Kurtz talks with Fox News execs about the news channel’s new Website, TheFoxNation.com.
The Web site will attempt to emulate the social aspects of Facebook — as well as MySpace, which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch — by encouraging readers to post comments and argue with one another. And the hook will be columns, blogs and videos from the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Greta Van Susteren and Hannity, which will likely draw their strongest followers.
“We felt that giving people a real destination to go and express themselves would give them a feeling of belonging,” says Senior Vice President Joel Cheatwood, adding “If they’re critical of Fox News, that’s fine. You just can’t say anything that’s hateful or hurtful to someone else.”
The new site will be linked from FoxNews.com, which trails its cable news competitors’ Websites. FoxNews.com drew 16 million uniques in February, behind msnbc.com’s 41 million and CNN.com’s 36 million.
Says senior VP Bill Shine: “We’re calling it a mix between the Huffington Post and Drudge.”
> More from CJR: “You might not conclude, in baffled frustration, hey, there’s nothing wrong with partisan journalism…but only if it’s up-front with its audience about its biases; only if it doesn’t try to disguise those biases under a glib motto of objectivity; only if it doesn’t perpetuate a laughable line of logic that purposely confuses conservatism with patriotism.”
(via ICN)
After Monday’s O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel, Bill O’Reilly went back to his office, fired up a Webcam and hosted his first “Post-Game” Web show. During the candid, seven-minute Webcast O’Reilly recapped the show, gave inside details about production problems (“somebody screwed up in Texas and we’re going to hunt them down”) and even detailed his mispronunciation of Antonin Scalia‘s first name. “Hey I make mistakes all the time,” he added. And how does O’Reilly gauge Monday’s show: “On a scale of A to F, that program gets a B+.”
This week the Post-Game Show is free but beginning next week will be for premium members only of BillOReilly.com.
