In a strongly-worded editorial this week, St. Louis University’s student newspaper said that it disagrees with university administrators who have banned longtime advisor and faculty member Avis Meyer from its newsroom.

Complete article: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-grade/higher-education/2008/08/slu-student-newspaper-says-avis-meyer-is-welcome-in-newsroom/

(From Tom Taylor's Media Newsletter)

Sure is – along with CBS Radio stations in many other markets outside the top 15 or so. It’s still odd to think that CBS would part with KDKA, Pittsburgh (for the right offer) or “Voice of St. Louis” KMOX. But that’s the reality of Dan Mason’s world – he and Leslie Moonves want to distill the group down to the large markets and the clusters where they’ve got “scale.” St. Louis, with just two FMs (KEZK and KYKY) and a monster (though expensive to run) AM named KMOX, isn’t one of them. So maybe giving KMOX general manager Dave Ervin a so-long handshake is a kind of budget move – ahead of potentially selling the station and/or the cluster. There’s local speculation about CBS and Bonneville discussing a swap, perhaps to let Bonneville get bigger in St. Louis and CBS to get bigger in some place like Phoenix. Bonneville's Bruce loves to swap - we already know that.

Broadcast television network audiences declined for Wednesday night’s coverage of the Democratic Convention, falling off from both the previous news cycle and the comparable night four years ago, according to preliminary national ratings data from Nielsen Media Research.

Complete article: http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/08/broadcast_tv_news_audiences_fa.php

Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens doesn't take no for an answer.

At least he didn't when NBC -- and sibling cable networks CNBC and MSNBC -- apparently rejected his latest ad stating the case for the U.S. to decrease its dependence on foreign oil.

Complete article: http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/media/e3i1dfc511f8a668fcce17c1200a255f517