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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Can Media Bias Ever Be Good? The Ethics of Environmental 'Bias'
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
March 12, 2010 07:35 am EST
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| David Poulson, associate director of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. (Credit: EJMagazine.com) |
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Fairness, balance, objectivity, truth, bias… These words get used a lot in discussions of journalistic ethics. But not every journalist (or every ethicist) agrees either on their exact definitions, or on how they fit in to the greater project of journalism. Most would agree that bias isn’t good. But David Poulson, associate director of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism argues the opposite in a March 6 post at Great...Go to full story
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Canadian Journalists Told: Stop Hugging Olympic Athletes
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 01, 2010 10:58 am EST
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Murray Brewster in The Canadian Press reports that a "sobering" email went out last week "to television reporters and personalities with the rights to cover the 2010 Vancouver Games." It warned journalists to stop hugging Canadian athletes.
Brewster writes: "Bursting displays of patriotism among journalists over the last two weeks has given the country some cringe-worthy Olympic moments, especially for those who cling to the...Go to full story
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Veteran Investigative Reporters Hired by Church of Scientology
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 27, 2010 08:37 am EST
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| The Church of Scientology (which publishes Freedom magazine) recently tapped the skills of three veteran investigative reporters. (Credit: FreedomMag.org) |
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Last November, StinkyJournalism drew attention to a job advertisement from the Church of Scientology seeking experienced journalists to further their mission of "Investigative Reporting in the Public Interest."
Now it looks like that job may have been filled. Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post reports that three veteran journalists--“a Pulitzer Prize winner, a former '60 Minutes' producer and the former executive director of Investigative Reporters and...Go to full story
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NewsTrust's Weeklong Hunt for Bad Journalism: Join In
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 25, 2010 7:15 pm EST
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| An example of how ratings on NewsTrust look for an example of "Bad Journalism." (Credit: NewsTrust.net) |
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This week (through Sunday, February 28) NewsTrust, a public journalism rating site, is hosting a hunt for bad journalism. Working with students from a class at Stanford University, the NewsTrust blog will feature a new set of bad stories every day, seeking viewer participation to rate the site's choices as well as suggest others.
The blog announced the hunt Monday, saying the exercise is intended to “highlight journalism with serious flaws: news reports and opinions that...Go to full story
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NY Times reports : Farming-out media content produces major risks
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 07, 2010 09:41 am EST
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| Peter G. Peterson (right) is the main financial backer of the Fiscal Times. (Credit Peter G. Peterson foundation) |
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StinkyJournalism recently wrote about ethical issues in the partnership between the Washington Post and upstart financial news service, the Fiscal Times.
Printing content from outside news providers risks a newspaper’s credibility, especially if the story emerges with fairness or balance problems. Specifically, the Washington Post was criticized after publishing a Fiscal Times story many argued was unbalanced.
Recently, the New York Times...Go to full story
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New Breitbart Site, BigJournalism Mixes up "Bias" and "Skepticism"
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 16, 2010 07:43 am EST
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| Andrew Breitbart's new site BigJournalism launched December 6. |
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Andrew Breitbart, the publisher and commentator behind Breitbart.com and BigHollywood, launched his new site BigJournalism yesterday. In an interview with Business Insider, Breitbart says the site is “going to war with biased old-media -- and even new media types,” and that he’s “trying to fill a huge market void for original reporting and fact based journalism" for the "silent minority around the world." He calls his new site a place...Go to full story
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Cold Weather Reveals Misunderstandings of Climate Science
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
January 15, 2010 06:28 am EST
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| Cold weather and snow this season confuse media on difference between weather and climate. (Credit: Paul Lowry, Flickr.com) |
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A quick note for climate reporters and interested bloggers working in the Northern Hemisphere this winter: Just because it’s snowing where you sit, doesn’t mean you have disproved global warming.
StinkyJournalism has written before about how easy it is to confuse weather with climate in science reporting. Climate change skeptics often harp on stories where a tenuous connection is drawn between a single weather event, like a large wildfire, and the broad issue of...Go to full story
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Newsweek Decided To Not Disclose Reporter's Former Job :
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| Former Bush Aide is Covering Obama Administration |
| by Danielle Elliot, Stinkyjournalism.org |
December 13, 2009 09:50 am EST
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| Newsweek is defending its decision to not include a disclosure in contributor Yuval Levin's byline. Levin is a former George W. Bush White House aide, now covering the Obama administration for the magazine. |
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Newsweek is defending its decision to not inform readers that one of its reporters, Yuval Levin, was a bioethics adviser with the George W. Bush Administration. Since President Barrack Obama took office, Levin has been writing for the magazine.
Blogger Daniel Tencer of The Raw reports on the issue in a November 17 post. He says that in a recent article, "Levin argued that the Democrats missed an opportunity to divide the Republican Party by not including tax...Go to full story
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New York Times Breaking Own Precedent :
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| Bloggers Cry Foul as NYT Refuses to Link to Stolen Documents |
| by Danielle Elliot, Stinkyjournalism.org |
December 09, 2009 2:25 pm EST
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| The New York Times' Dot Earth refused to link to controversially obtained emails. Doing so has turned into a story of its own. |
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Has the New York Times changed its ethical standards? The paper recently refused to publish a slew of controversially obtained emails. On November 20, Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter, for The New York Times, says he chose not to link to the emails because “the documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”
While Revkin...Go to full story
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A Lesson on Ethics, Courtesy of Tiger Woods
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| Media Circus Surrounding Woods is Unethical, says Arizona State U Prof |
| by Danielle Elliot, StinkyJournalism.org |
December 06, 2009 09:35 am EST
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| How much do we need to know about golfer Tiger Woods love life versus the war or world financial crisis? (Credit: Keith Allison, Flickr) |
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In a December 2 post for McGuire on Media, a blog on the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s website, professor Tim McGuire addresses the media ethics involved in the recent Tiger Woods media "circus".
The Los Angeles Times called the coverage “smotherage”, running an entire article dedicated to the sheer volume of it. Brett Haber writes in a USA Today column, “‘People want...Go to full story
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