|
StinkyJournalism Media Picks
Biased Coverage-Listing filtered by Topic
|
|
HuffPost Removes Offer of $100K for a Takedown of Glenn Beck
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 31, 2010 08:11 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| The Huffington Post removed Beau Friedlander's post offering money in exchange for a sex tape, phone records or anything that gets Glenn Beck out of the public eye. The Post removed the story and replaced it with the above editor's note. (Credit: Huffington Post) |
|
|
|
|
|
The Huffington Post removed one of its blogs from its site yesterday and replaced it with an editor's note that said the posting "didn't meet our editorial standards."
The blog post, by Beau Friedlander, offered $100,000 for anything that could "pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon" and get Glenn Beck out of "the public eye forever." Friedlander didn't say he was putting up his own money, but offered to be the...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blogger highlights Pakistan media's sensationalism
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 25, 2010 08:54 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| This detail of a screen shot from Pakistan's Express Tribune's report on a nurse's rape is just one example of how Pakistan's media can be intrusive. (Credit: "etribune," YouTube) |
|
|
|
|
|
A Pakistani blogger wrote Aug 22 criticizing the Pakistani's intrusive media coverage and insensitive treatment of victims.
The blogger, Jamal Ashiqain, highlighted several recent incidents where the media in Pakistan has shown, in his opinion, questionable ethics and irresponsibility, among them was the July 13 report of a 22-year-old trainee nurse was raped and either pushed out or jumped out of a window.
CathNews Asia reported that...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reporter fired after wearing Gator hat at Razorback news conference
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 22, 2010 08:19 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Renee Gork, seen in this detail of a screenshot from an interview with Arkansas TV station 4029, was fired from Arkansas radio station KAKS just two days after she wore a Florida Gators hat to a conference held by rival Arkansas Razorbacks football coach (Credit: YouTube, 4029) |
|
|
|
|
|
Is it OK to wear sports fan gear if you're a sports reporter?
Arkansas radio reporter Renee Gork wore a Univ. of Florida Gators hat to an Aug. 14 press conference held by the Univ. of Arkansas Razorback's football coach Bobby Petrino. After Petrino answered a question posed by Gork, he ended his response saying "And that will be the last question I answer with that hat on," Petrino said.
(The Gators beat the Razorbacks...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shirley Sherrod Plans to Sue Blogger Andrew Breitbart for NAACP Story
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 05, 2010 07:29 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Shirley Sherrod said last week that she plans to sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted the video that led to her losing her job. Image above is screenshot from Sherrod's full lecture, posted on YouTube at the center of the controversy.
(Credit: NAACP, YouTube) |
|
|
|
|
|
Shirley Sherrod, a former state director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced at the National Association of Black Journalists July 29 that she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who first published the video that led to her resignation.
Bloggers started weighing in on what grounds Sherrod could sue as soon as it became clear that the video clip was out of context.
The Backstory...
Now...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New York Times' Reports on Blumenthal Questioned by Media Outlets
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 27, 2010 08:30 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| The New York Times has been writing extensively on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's military record. (Credit: The New York Times) |
|
|
|
|
|
Starting May 17, The New York Times has published several articles and a 58-second video to call Richard Blumenthal out for misrepresenting himself as having served in Vietnam.
The nut of The Times’s evidence was the 58-second video in which Blumenthal, Connecticut's Attorney General who is running for the U.S. Senate, said he served in Vietnam. Blumenthal didn't serve in Vietnam, but he did serve during the Vietnam era, which he also said in the...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Snapshot of local reporting: Texas columnist calls out TV reporter for biased Tea Party reporting
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 22, 2010 07:33 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Columnist Bud Kennedy (left, credit: Twitter) called out TV reporter Lindsay Landry (right, credit: Talent Tapes) for biased reporting in an April column. Kennedy didn't get Landry's side of the story before publication. |
|
|
|
|
|
COMMENTARY
Like the alleged "blue wall of silence" among police, it is unusual when journalists break a similar grey wall of silence and publicly blast another journalist.
So when Bud Kennedy’s April 27 Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper column slammed KETK-TV reporter Lindsay Landry’s coverage of the Tea Party in Tyler, Texas, it caught StinkyJournalism's attention. (Not subtle, Kennedy wondered in a tweet if...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Does Howard Kurtz Continue To Not Disclose Conflicts of Interest?
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 20, 2010 08:38 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Media Bistro and Media Matters wonder if it's OK for Howard Kurtz to take reporting from one of his jobs to the other. Kurtz writes for The Washington Post and hosts CNN's "Reliable Sources."
(Credit: Detail from The Washington Post Web page). |
|
|
|
|
|
Media Matters and Media Bistro continue to be concerned with Howard Kurtz's dual employment --at both The Washington Post and CNN.
Kurtz, after being called out for not disclosing both of his jobs, admitted in a June 17, 2009 article by Washington Post’s public editor Andrew Alexander, that his lack of disclosure was “an oversight and won’t be repeated.”
Media Matters originally cited a June 15, 2009, online chat in...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SPJ "dismayed" : Gannett newspapers let New Jersey Devils' employee cover his own pro hockey team
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 03, 2010 07:32 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Eric Marin, who writes for the New Jersey Devils Web site, is also writing for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey...on the New Jersey Devils. |
|
|
|
|
|
The Society for Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee wrote that it is “dismayed” that some New Jersey Gannett newspapers have a New Jersey Devils employee reporting on the team.
The New York Times reported April 18 that some Gannett newspapers in New Jersey have been publishing articles written by Eric Marin, who works for the Devils' Web site. Marin’s first article for the Gannett's Asbury Park Press appears to have been...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FOX News Cancels Sean Hannity's Tea Party Event Coverage
|
| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 17, 2010 07:47 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| See detail above from a promotion for the Cincinnati Tea Party rally. Sean Hannity is listed as a headline speaker. (Credit: MediaMatters) |
|
|
|
|
|
Kudos to Fox News for pulling Sean Hannity's program from its coverage of the Cincinnati Tea Party, even if it was at the last minute.
Hannity was scheduled to broadcast his show from the Cincinnati Tea Party rally on April 15. But, Hannity and his broadcast were yanked back to New York when Fox News found out the Tea Party was charging admission to the rally, The New York Times blogged.
According to its Web site, the...Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acorn Media Roundup: Criticism of MsM Coverage Runs Wild
|
| by Sydney Smith, stinkyjournalism.org |
March 28, 2010 10:50 am EST
|
|
|
 |
| Screen shot from FOX & Friends broadcast of interview with student and ACORN debunker,James O’Keefe. When introduced, O'Keefe failed to correct the error in the FOX introduction by explaining that he didn't wear a pimp outfit while undercover in the ACORN offices. |
|
|
|
MEDIA ROUNDUP
With the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (aka ACORN) closing this week, bloggers have been buzzing about how the media’s coverage (and mis-coverage) affected or caused the organization’s demise.
Complaints of media coverage have ping-ponged between polarized political blogs and news media outlets over the past seven months.
It all started after conservative activists and students, James... Go to full story
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
