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What Has Happened to the Washington Post?
Editor’s note: Last week, the Washington Post’s publisher and CEO William Lewis announced that the paper for the only the second time in 50 years would not be endorsing a candidate for the presidency of the United States. In a … Continue reading
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Tagged ch05journalism, ch15ethics, Jeff Bezos, Post Endorsement Controversy, Tim Carman, Washington Post
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What is “Pink Slime” Journalism, and Why is it Such a Problem?
Back in 2012, American consumers were grossed out by stories that found ground beef sold in plastic chubs was often supplemented with the meat byproduct euphemistically known as “finely chopped beef.” This collection of “trimmings” is sprayed with ammonia gas … Continue reading
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My How Times Have @#%&ing Changed: Politicians, Presidents and Profanity
As I have previously written, presidents and other politicians using offensive language is nothing new. (In fact, I wrote about this topic as early as 2006 in a media commentary for the late, great Charleston Daily Mail, now merged into … Continue reading
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WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich freed from Russian prison in massive prisoner swap
The job of being a journalist around the world can be a dangerous one; reporters literally risk their lives to report the news. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that in 2023, 99 journalists and media workers were killed … Continue reading
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Conflicts between newsroom and management at Washington Post
NOTE: Sorry for the recent lack of posts. I’ve been writing away on the ninth edition of Mass Communication, Living in a Media World that comes out in 2025. Expect to see posts based on some of that material as the … Continue reading
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A Rough Week for Fox and its Hosts Part 2 – Bye Bye Tucker Carlson (& CNN’s Don Lemon)
The popular right-wing cable talk network Fox News has had a rough couple of weeks. In a previous post we talked about their settlement of Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion defamation suit. And in this post will discuss why popular … Continue reading
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Twits commenting on AI student deception, auto transcription & more charges of bias
Twitter’s had a lot of discussion about some interesting issues in the last week. Here’s some thoughts on student use of AI tools, use of automated transcription, and false equivalency bias. I’m less in the “can’t be tricked!” camp and … Continue reading
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How do journalists cover elections & Trump this time around?
I’ve been writing lately about how journalists covered the 2022 election. Is it too early to start thinking about the 2024 election? Even if it is, lots of journalists have started doing so. Let’s take a look: Center right WaPo … Continue reading
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Improving election coverage – Reflections on Election Day 2022 – Part 2
I’m not one to hammer on “THE MEDIA,” whatever that may be, but I do think there are things that journalists can do to improve their coverage of elections.: Maybe the real lesson of tonight’s election for my colleagues and … Continue reading
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Reflections on Election Day 2022 News Coverage – Part 1
Election Day 2022 went remarkably smoothly. There are still a number of uncalled contests, most notably three US senate races as of this writing mid-afternoon on Thursday, Nov. 10. But so far it appears that people were able to reliably … Continue reading
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