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Link Ch. 6 – Should Reporters Call Out Sources For Lying?
The NY Times public editor really set off a bit of a firestorm today with his column. In it, Arthur Brisbane asks, apparently seriously, whether reporters ought to be calling out sources for claiming things as “facts” that are demonstrably … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 14, Chapter 2, Chapter 6
Tagged ethics, newspapers, politics, Truth 6
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Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Reporters Praised for Coverage of Shootings
There can be no doubt that student journalists at Virginia Tech’s Collegiate Times had the best coverage in the country of Thursday’s shooting deaths of the VT campus. As I wrote on this blog yesterday, the paper’s staff did an … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged newspapers, social media, Virginia Tech
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Patriot-News Devotes Front Page to Editorial on Penn State Scandal
The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran a front-page editorial on Tuesday calling on Penn State University President Graham Spanier to resign over his failure to “do what is right – for his school, or more importantly for the alleged victims of coaching … Continue reading
News about News
Chicago Defender facing financial trouble One of the nation’s oldest and most storied black-owned papers has laid off its top editors and is behind on its rent. Disney tells ABC affiliates not to talk to Johnny Depp about his new … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Should ESPN have fired Hank Williams Jr. for comparing Obama to Hitler? Or comparing Boehner to to Netanyahu? Jon Stewart says no: “Have you met him?” BTW, Williams’ comparison of Obama to Hitler is a great example of Godwin’s Law. … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 6
Tagged apple, ethics, mobile media, mobile phones, newspapers, questions
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Sept. 11, 2001 retrospective
I’ve been tweeting a lot this last week or two about 9/11 coverage. Here’s a collection of items based on those tweets. Newseum Newspaper Front Page Archive The Newseum posts the front pages of newspapers from around the world on … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 14
Tagged 9/11, ethics, newspapers, photography, television, twitter
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Media news at AEJMC
Hi, everyone from AEJMC in Sunny St. Louis! If you are here and want to say hello, send me an e-mail to rhanson40@gmail.com. In the mean time, here’s a bit of what’s happening currently in media news: Tyler Perry, of … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged AEJMC, alt-press, apple, legal issues, newspapers, television
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Ch. 3 Link – Rupert Murdoch, Capt. Renault, and the News of the World
I’ve been holding off blogging for some time about the whole fuss over the scandal surrounding the British tabloid News of the World because I haven’t really been sure what to say about it. On the one hand, the largest … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged ethics, international news, newspapers, Truth 4
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Link Ch. 1 – Covering bin Laden’s Death
Here are a number of stories on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011 WVU’s Daily Athenaeum Covers Street Celebrations The staff of WVU’s student newspaper did a great job of covering the street celebrations when the … Continue reading
Questions worth asking (maybe)
Why on earth would a newspaper tell reporters not to engage with community? Are these guys nuts? This almost guarantees that people will view their media as being completely disconnected from their concerns. How should journalism schools teach mobile media? … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 6, Chapter 9, Uncategorized
Tagged mobile media, newspapers, questions, television, zombies
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