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Blogging and newsrooms
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Ivy J-Schoolers Fail Ethics, Ace Irony
What every journalism professor dreads, courtesy of Radar. Cheating on an ethics exam? It sounds like the setup for a joke. But a group of grad students at Columbia’s Journalism School are suspected of having done just that, according to a source at the institution… …In this case, it seems a few of the aspiring…
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New news channels
This week’s Economist has a surprisingly weak piece, A new fashion for state-owned English-language television news. It ends a hackneyed review with this conclusion: For audiences, having more news channels should be a boon. But they are expensive, and in many places the burden will fall on taxpayers. Some lucky people (in America, especially) may…
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Distorted information environments
This how the Daily Mail reported Peter Horrocks‘ speech. A tad harsh…but they do inhabit a ‘distorted information environment’. Here’s what former BBC producer Phil Woolas MP, Labour minister for community cohesion (a sort of ministerial Pritt®) reckons the corporation is for: Their job is to give a microphone to credible organisations and people, and…