![]() ![]() The Christian Science Monitor is owned by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. In that item, the sub-headline is also false, also misstating the senator's title: "It’s the first time since June that Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of State, has led Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in a big poll." Poll shows Grimes leads McConnell for Kentucky Senate. Retrieved April 7, 2015įalse: "It’s Monday, so we’ve got another dose of big poll news: in Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes is ahead of Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell by two percentage points in a just-released Bluegrass survey." - Grier, P. Ted Cruz: Who's winning tea party voters? (+video). John Cornyn (R), who also faces a tea party primary challenge." - Grier, P. Retrieved April 7, 2015įalse: "Where Paul has endorsed majority leader Mitch McConnell against a tea party primary opponent, angering some conservatives, Cruz won't support Texas colleague Sen. Jeb Bush for president? 16 Republicans who might run next time. Retrieved April 7, 2015įalse: "He gave crucial support to the senior senator from Kentucky, now-majority leader Mitch McConnell, in his successful reelection in 2014." - Feldmann, L. Why stalemate suits GOP just fine in Round 2 of deficit fight. Retrieved April 7, 2015įalse: "Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R) or Kentucky offered a similar assessment." - Chaddock, G. Obama moves to take political control of BP Gulf oil spill. He was Minority Leader in the 113th Congress (2013-2015) and prior to that.įalse: "'The President has spent a whole lot of time pointing the finger at BP, and you should point a finger at BP and the other companies involved in it,' Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on NBC's Meet the Press last Sunday." - Knickerbocker, B. True: Regarding the United States of America, Senator Mitch McConnell was not Majority Leader of the United States Senate until 2015. ![]() Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, said it’s tough to draw too many conclusions from the Monitor’s decision because it is so unusual: It’s owned by the church, has a small but national circulation and sells relatively little advertising.Christian Science Monitor false informationġ13th Congress > Christian Science Monitor falsityįalsity about the minority leader of the U.S. ![]() In Ohio, several local papers plan to print their final Monday editions next week. The Daily Telegram, in Superior, Wis., announced in July that it would print only two issues a week and its Web site would become the primary source for daily news. In April, The Capital Times, of Madison, Wis., switched to publishing mainly on the Internet. The paper is not the first but is the most prominent to scale back its print version in favor of online news. It becomes much less urgent to indulge in The Christian Science Monitor,” said Tucher, who teaches a course on the history of American journalism. Rather than reading that as my second or third paper, I now go online and browse Slate and Salon and the political sites, and I can read any other paper I like. Christian Science is about feeling and understanding Gods goodness. “That’s the real crisis for papers like this. With even small newspapers being squeezed by the Web, it makes sense that a “second read” like the Monitor would be harder hit. “Obviously, this is going to help with our costs, but it also enables us to put much more emphasis on the Web and basically put our reporting assets and our editorial assets where we think growth will be in a very tough industry in the future, which we think is the Web,” said Editor John Yemma, who was The Boston Globe’s multimedia editor before he moved to the Monitor in June.Ĭutting print editions also will help the paper reduce its dependence on sizable subsidies from its owner, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, which now provides more than half its operating budget, Yemma said.Īndie Tucher, an associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School Of Journalism, said the Monitor has traditionally been a newspaper people read for in-depth articles after they get local news from a local or state newspaper. The Monitor was one of the first newspapers in the country to put content online, beginning in 1995, when correspondent David Rohde was taken prisoner in Bosnia. ![]() The newspaper gets about 5 million page-views per month, compared with about 4 million five years ago and 1 million a decade ago. The Monitor’s circulation has fallen from a peak of 223,000 in 1970 to about 50,000 now, while its online traffic has soared. ![]()
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