Objectivity in journalism is not only a fallacy but a dangerous goal. She basically said in order to be an objective journalist, you cannot have values. Therefore, because journalists publish themselves to other people, in order to remain perfectly objective, you cannot make moral judgments on what you observe and write about, otherwise you are inherently ...
Basically The New York Times followed any standard, good ethical thought process: do no harm, by protecting their foreign source and photographer from violence by not posting a story or image online (international medium) that could have violent reprocussions outside of the United States. Instead the published it in print for the public good and ...
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/csm_dies_is_reborn.php http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2008/10/29/business/media/29carr.html?permid=96#comment96 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2008/vote_usa_2008/7694856.stm What do you think? ...
I’m in the airport after a long week of at the Associated Collegiate Press conference in Kansas City. I’d say “thoroughly dsiappointed” fits the bill nicely. Some of it includes what these two bloggers have mentioned about Rich Beckman’s keynote address: Anthony Pesce: “The packages looked fantastic, and were produced impeccably, but I think they ...
Bob McGregor is a white middle-class American house dad. He lives in an aging house, owns two old cars, has two daughters and a wife going through school. The question: How does Bob use journalism, how does journalism intersect him, how could journalism help his life? ...
Or one Knight Foundation News Challenge application. This is what we’ve been working on for the last month or more. Or rather what Annie and David Calvert started talking about two years ago and I joined recently and we wrote up last night. Annie Flanzraich tells us how it started: Two years ago David and I were ...
Readers of The Nevada Sagebrush seem to break the general trend recognized by other student publications. Many of them said their readers are apathetic and comment rarely and many times when they do, conversations degrade into racist remarks, troll battles and other things often experienced by professional papers. ...
We’ve been bad bloggers so I apologize to three of you who read us. Annie, David Calvert and I, with the amazing help of Donica, are working non-stop to apply for the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge grant in an effort to save journalism in Reno. Until the applications are filled out and sent and the ...