HonestReporting.com has released its "Dishonest Reporting" awards for 2004. Check it out.
HonestReporting.com has released its "Dishonest Reporting" awards for 2004. Check it out.
Steven Vincent, author of "In the Red Zone," has an excellent piece on his blog on the "Politics of Grief." Photography—the visual media in general—is ill-suited for conveying the abstract thoughts and concepts that provide context for images. The once-living soldier’s face, the flag-draped coffin, the brave war widow make us feel profound worlds of […]
Lies about the 2000 election outcome continue to be proliferated, this time as an aside to the San Diego Mayor race. She [assistant metro editor Laura Wingard] likened the Union-Tribune's role in the count to what happened in Florida in the 2000 election. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that George Bush won the election, but […]
So I'm taking a glance at the AP wire and come across a story slugged "IslamicReform." So, I open it up and take a look at it and it turns out to be headlined: "WASHINGTON TODAY: Islamic countries want U.S. to change Mideast policy." And that would be Islamic reform how exactly?
One of these days I've got to write something really silly and then get it published on the New York Times op-ed page. Today's case in point is a piece written for the page by Will Carroll, a column for Baseball Prospectus. BASEBALL fans are understandably disturbed by the news that several top players, including […]
On the Letters page over at Poynter Online I came across the following letter from Luke Stangel, a reporter at the Palo Alto Daily News. I just got back to the office from the live taping of the Hannity & Colmes Fox News talk show at the Flint Center in Cupertino, Calif. Our newspaper has […]
There's been chatter going around that the report on the investigation of the forged Bush National Guard memos will come out today. I tend to think that while a Clintonesque late-Friday-afternoon-document-dump is likely, I happen to think it will be a different Friday -- the one two weeks from today. As that report nears finality, […]
The use of anonymous sources in journalism is usually discussed in college classrooms in a variety of courses, such as reporting and ethics. Once the student graduates to a real newsroom, all of the pros and cons that were the subject of debate in the classroom seem to just disappear, especially in the so-called elite […]
I saw this story come over the wire this afternoon, and was shocked and moved by it. It requires free registration, but it's well worth it.
Lt. Smash has acquired a copy of the James Goldsborough column that resulted in Goldsborough deciding to quit. I would like to emphasize that I didn't give it to him. Frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't shown up over at Poynter.