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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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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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Tagged ch05journalism, ch15ethics, covering the president, presidential profanity
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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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Tagged ch05journalism, ch15ethics, Dominion Voting, don lemon, Fox News, tucker carlson
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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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