July 2010
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Truth is Consistent: Either Waterboarding is...
Was it un-American for Woodward and Bernstein to investigate President Nixon’s involvement in Watergate? Or was it un-American that the President of the United States was breaking American laws? Was it un-American for Matt Drudge to use the Internet to break the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal? Or was it un-American of President Clinton to abuse his power in office?
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July 2009
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12 U.S. Laws Every Blogger Should Know
Courtesy of CNPIntegrations.com
The Blogosphere is increasingly bound its own ethics and laws, which is a good thing, if readers are expecting reliable and fair content.
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To Name or Not to Name: When an Alleged Victim of...
The Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins presents a tricky ethical conundrum: In standard criminal cases involving allegations of sexual assault, a victim’s identity is almost always withheld to protect the victim. But what about alleged victims in civil lawsuits? According to Tompkins in his analysis of the pending civil case against Pittsburgh Steeler’s quarterback Ben...
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Whitewashing Walter? Cronkite Would Want To Be...
Roy Clark of the Poynter Institute is a brave man. He’s among the first to admit that Walter Cronkite was not a god, was human, and did have his faults—even in the realm of his profession. Below is a synopsis of all his points, but to read the full article from Poynter, CLICK HERE.
*Note-All questions were posed by Roy Clark.
Question 1: If Cronkite so valued the standards of...
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WatchJon Stewart holds NBC’s Brian Williams accountable for decrease in the media’s independence with regard to their subjects.
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Journalistic Integrity No Lauging Matter-So Why...
July 20, 2009- The Daily Show doesn’t pretend to be high brow when it comes to comedy; in fact, host Jon Stewart opened the show by making a quip about his male anatomy. But while The Daily Show’s delivery might be the ilk of the court jester, the subject matter is no laughing matter. Stewart is on a crusade to keep journalism accountable—even when it means haraunging the most...
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Religion is the Worst Covered Subject in American...
According to the Baltimore Sun via the Poynter Institute. According to the Sun, a religion writer writes a column that is picked up by 900 newspapers…when Michael Jackson gets an ORIGINAL column for almost twice that many. Which begs the question, why is the covering of religion so underfunded? ~David R. Norton
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Cronkite School of Journalism-This Just In...By...
By Joe Cellini
Although it’s entirely unclear where professional journalism is going, it seems obvious enough where the next professional journalists will come from. That would be a program like the one at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications - Arizona State University, where a ….FULL STORY
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CBS Remembers Walter Cronkite 1916-2009
I only think it fitting to remember Walter Cronkite in the eyes of the network that bore him: CBS. With his passing is the end of symbol in journalism, the era having passed long ago. Forty years ago, 2/3 of Americans watched Cronkite as Apollo 11 landed on the moon. While mass media and Twitter might have been a conduit to news distribution of Michael Jackson’s death, no one will...
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Man Who Posed As Journalist to Gain Entry to...
Admittedly, the following story reported by The Star online is sketchy. In it, a man who posed as a journalist for a TV station was not employed by any station, but he was equipped with cameras and a crew, begging the question: was he there to document something? Was this some sort of citizen journalism? Regardless, in the United States, it appears that lying and false pretenses by civilians,...
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Americans Pay Gobs For Cable; Is Asking $5 a Month...
It’s a question not of money but what Americans value, and these days it seems it’s fluff. Americans pay gobs for cable and access to a lot of base programing, but when you ask them to pay for news content online, many scoff with outrage. But Bill Mitchell, in an article for The Poynter Institute makes a valid point considering The New York Times recently conducted a poll asking...
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Washington Post Ombudsman Says "Salon" Scheme An...
By Andrew AlexanderSunday, July 12, 2009
The Washington Post’s ill-fated plan to sell sponsorships of off-the-record “salons” was an ethical lapse of monumental proportions.
Publisher Katharine Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli have now taken full responsibility for what was envisioned as…..FULL ARTICLE HERE
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Let's keep the news classy: Washington City Paper...
Marion Barry is not the most respectable character in the district, but the Washington City Paper might have gone to far, at least as far as headlines and publication covers go. The current issue cover shows Barry and Donna Watts-Brighthaupt—famous recently for leveling stalking charges against the former DC mayor and current city councilman—above the following headline: “You...
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Fox News Says Swedes Have "Pure Genes", Americans,...
How is this even possible in the 21st Century? From the Huffington Post.
[Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] How the news... →
jtownend:
…How the news sites are treating the phone tapping story by Judith Townend Yesterday afternoon in a powerful Guardian exclusive , investigative journalist Nick Davies reported that the Murdoch News…
[Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] NISnews.nl: Dutch... →
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…NISnews.nl: Dutch newspaper suing state for phone-tapping journalists by Judith Townend NIS News reports the other phone tapping story of the week (this one’s about Dutch journalists having their…
[Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] Nick Davies told... →
jtownend:
…Nick Davies told Commons committee in April that PCC phone hacking inquiry flawed by Judith Townend You may recall that back in April Nick Davies gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture,…
[Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] Who will the PCC... →
jtownend:
…Who will the PCC question at NOTW if it re-opens investigation into phone hacking? by Judith Townend Will the PCC question News of the World’s Stuart Kuttner, who yesterday stepped down as the…
[Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog] The only place... →
jtownend:
…The only place you’ll find mention of newspaper phone hacking on the Sun website… by Judith Townend On the Sun Online’s discussion board Barton71 reports (via the BBC): “Rupert Murdoch’s News…
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Now that Michael Jackson Is in the Ground, The...
There was no use stopping it. There was no use writing a post during it. It was like watching a friend make a fool of themselves at a bar after their tenth shot of tequila—let the insanity take its course; reason and logic won’t apply until the morning after.
But now it is the morning after the orgy that was the Michael Jackson farewell coverage, and it’s time the media, now...
“I’ll comment more on Michael Jackson and Ethics tomorrow. Until...”
– MSNBC’s Michael Okwu, during the network’s coverage of Jackson’s death.
Okwu was given the “single stupidest comment about Michael Jackson’s death” award by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
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June 2009
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"Three Minutes to Fort Totten" by Eli Saslow-...
Eli Saslow captures a horrible event by treating all her subjects with dignity and without exploitation. The writing is fantastic. Please read her article from Sunday’s The Washington Post.
“Deputy minister praises public newspaper's online service - AngolaPress:...”
– Journalism_info
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Michael Jackson And The Evolution of Covering...
Guidelines for Covering Michael Jackson’s Death, Other Celebrity StoriesPosted by Al Tompkins at 7:39 PM on Jun. 25, 2009My, how times have changed. When Elvis Presley died in 1977, “The CBS Evening News” didn’t even lead with the story. The first mention of Elvis’ death was not until six and a half minutes into the newscast that night. ……FULL STORY from...
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Report the Affair, Not The Emails: The SC Governor...
Governor Mark Sanford (SC-R) is a public figure. He violated a public trust. He broke his marriage vows. His story needs to be reported. South Carolina constituents and the members of the socially conservative Republican party need to know about this hypocrisy. That is not up for debate. However, the release of personal emails between Sandford and his Argentinean lover is beyond abhorrent....
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Rules of Engagement For Journalists Using Twitter
Anyone who has watched CNN’s coverage of the Iran crisis couldn’t help but notice the network’s heavy reliance on Twitter. In response, John Stewart criticized CNN for relying on unsubstantiated reports-but then again, with journalists expelled from the region, what alternative was there?
Apparently news organizations are not on the same page when it comes to the ethics of...
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Gawker Laments: "We May Inadvertently Do Good. We...
Howard Kurtz writes in his Washington Post column on the media that Gawker is proud of its position in the “blogosphere” as a rumor monger, scoffing at traditional journalism.
What good are institutions like this and how can we dissuade the population from supporting them?
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Treating the Accused as Innocent Until Proven...
Here’s a reprint of a comment I left on Dan Romensko’s Blog For the Poynter Institute: Posting Mug Shots is “A Bit Smarmy, Unseemly” for Legitimate News Orgs:
“I completely agree with Dan’s distinction. Mug shots published on police blotters are pictures of the “accused”, not the “convicted.” They don’t tell, as the blog...
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Teacher, Advocate for Free Press, Removed as...
In a recent discussion at the Georgetown University Graduate School for Journalism , the issue of shoddy reporting and rumor mongering on blogs and its affect on the profession was discussed. One of the reasons I suggested that so many blogs report irresponsibly is because most bloggers are untrained journalists and thus largely unaware of their responsibilities to the reporting community. Not...
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Vanity Fair's Matt Pressman Answers The Question:...
Matt Pressman hits on a many legitimate reasons as to why the public hate the media including acknowledging liberal bias and errors in reporting. But he also is right in noting that if left to “hacks” or untrained media agents, the news wold be a whole lot worse. FULL ARTICLE.
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Are blogs really dying? Interesting article: The... →
(via longtailwatch)
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“Romenesko: “The 99-cent iPhone app that kills print journalism”:...”
– Poynter
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“As a journalist, I cannot say that what I have read and seen today is the whole...”
– What the World Didn’t See in Tehran - TIME
This “raw feed of history” is why social media such as Twitter are so important - they put a human face to events, rather than providing the more sanitised version that is often put forward by more formal channels. This is why the video of Neda, the young...
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Neda: When A Private Moment Becomes Public
Her name has been on the tounges and message boards of billions around the world. In less than 24 hours, the woman known only as Neda has become the face of a revolution, her death the singular image plucked from millions who have made their support for the opposition in Iran known through the social media soup of blogs, tweets and Facebook posts. The death of Neda will become a...
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U.S. Journalists, Not U.S. "Meddling" in Iranian...
The reigning government in Iran recently just upped the anti as Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s highest ruler, condemned the election protests, declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner, and accused the U.S. and other western states of “meddling” in Iran’s affairs. However, the U.S., in an official sense, has done no such thing. The U.S. media, on the otherhand, has definitely...
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The Need For Justices To Protect Journalists'...
The Gulf Times, a newspaper based out of Qatar, recently published a story chronicling a Northern Irish journalist’s ordeal before a court pressing her to release the names of real IRA operatives, which, if upheld, would have put her life in danger and put into serious doubt the committment of journalists to keep their sources confidential. Thankfully, the judge ruled that she did not have...
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The Double Edged Sword That Is the Blog And It's...
The irony of this post, which is partly critical of blogs, is that it is disseminated through, yes, a blog. Blogs and other forms of “citizen journalism” can be wonderful if used correctly. However, in a recent post on her blog for NPR entitled “When Blogging News Can Go Wrong” NPR Ombudsman Alicia C. Shepard bemoans the fact that bloggers are giving journalists a bad...
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WatchLong Island Breakfast Club Tackles Joblessness with Barbaric Yawp! (Courtesy of CNN.com)
The Ethics Of Running Adult Ads and How Newspapers...
It’s a double standard, for sure. Amid scrutiny cerntered around a string of recent murders linking the site to ads for erotic services, Craigslist has been forced to suspend its practice of running erotic ads; this, apparently, could not be better for the dying newspaper industry. According an article in Wired newspaper revenue from personals has risen 38 percent since Craigslist shut...
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Publishing Companies Brace for Paperless Future
From The Washington Post
May 2009
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Poynter Institute Reports on Future of Fees For...
According to Poynter Institute blogger Bill Mitchell, a recent Pricewaterhouse Cooper study indicates that people will be willing to pay for news content online in the years ahead. However, Mitchell points out, these billed news services will center around more highbrow news that is “specialized, targeted and relevant”, as well as sports and financial news. General news, Mitchell...
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Broadcasters Held To Different Plagiarism...
The practice of broadcasters condensing news from newspapers without attribution has been going on for decades.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/thenewschick/archives/169587.asp
