Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Poynter
I know you can't cover everything. But here we are weeks into the Jamil Hussein scandal, and the Poynter Institute, the premier community site for journalism, hasn't even mentioned him on their website yet.
Amazing!
That's a journalistic blind spot you can drive a tank through.
They're even behind Editor and Publisher.
Amazing!
That's a journalistic blind spot you can drive a tank through.
They're even behind Editor and Publisher.
Comments:
broken link.
Which reminds me...is this Eason Jordan thing atoning for past sins, or amoral cynicism?
Which reminds me...is this Eason Jordan thing atoning for past sins, or amoral cynicism?
Well, Jason, at least Britt Hume briefly mentioned CNN's work at trying (and failing) to locate Hussein on his show last night, so that's two outlets interested.
I’m not surprised. I used to be surprised that I wasn’t surprised, but even that’s wearing off.
My disenchantment with so-called "mainstream" (print and broadcast) journalism began almost twenty years ago, when I first became interested in firearms and firearm issues. I quickly realized that the mainstream coverage of guns, gun control, crimes committed with guns, etc., was overwhelmingly ignorant of technical issues, lazy, agenda-driven and mendacious.
I’d hoped that the subject of guns was an exception; a cultural blind spot in the newsroom. Boy, was I wrong.
I started to ask, “If they can’t get that right, what else are they screwing up?” It’s been downhill ever since.
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My disenchantment with so-called "mainstream" (print and broadcast) journalism began almost twenty years ago, when I first became interested in firearms and firearm issues. I quickly realized that the mainstream coverage of guns, gun control, crimes committed with guns, etc., was overwhelmingly ignorant of technical issues, lazy, agenda-driven and mendacious.
I’d hoped that the subject of guns was an exception; a cultural blind spot in the newsroom. Boy, was I wrong.
I started to ask, “If they can’t get that right, what else are they screwing up?” It’s been downhill ever since.
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