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Can You Trust The Media? – Mistakes and corrections
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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Reading the news with sensitivity
Just how should you handle celebrity suicide attempts? A masterclass from ABC’s World News Now team, Ryan Owens and Taina Hernandez. [HT: Corey Bergman]
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Inside the surge
If you haven’t seen Sean Smith’s film from Baghdad then do yourself a favour and check it out. Smith is a Guardian photographer who’s been shooting video whilst on an embed with a US outfit.I don’t urge you to watch it with a view to persuading you of the sense or otherwise of the US…
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BBC World News Today
I have a piece at the Guardian today reviewing the Beeb’s revamp of its international newscast, The World – now World News Today (World News Tonight already belonging to ABC). Basically, the UK scheduling puts this up against Britain’s equivalent of NewsHour, and that’s got people asking why the BBC is duplicating something already offered…