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CNN bills itself as the most trusted name in news. Director-General Mark Thompson reckons public trust is the life-blood of the BBC. Politicians and TV presenters wail and tear their clothes in public at the public’s loss of trust in the media. “Woe is us,” wails the collective cry from the journalism profession, “they don’t believe.”
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The plan to set up a blog to record all the mistakes in CYTTM has - alas - been on the backburner (too busy).
So here’s one mistake from line 16, p58 [HT: Jack Shafer].
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I stumbled upon this TV news “fakery” classic from the early 1960s, which comes care of CBS veteran Daniel Schorr’s memoir, Clearing The Air. Schorr is lunching his boss, CBS chief, Bill Paley.
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How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics):
Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked for […]
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We come in peace, newslings.
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The Sunday Herald had a good little story:
So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update)
In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal):
Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work?
Moonves: You have to look at it […]
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
