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Madeleine McCann: obeying the people’s will
The note from BBC News exec Kevin Bakhurst on the coverage of the Madeleine McCann story was headed simply Too much from Portugal? Bakhurst’s professional answer is obviously no: The coverage of Madeleine McCann continues to cause debate and discussion, particularly now in some of the newspapers. This is something of course that we spend…
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I would love to chat with you about this horrific event…
How do you cover a tragedy in an age where things can come back to haunt you? Well, our friends at Gawker have pointed up a LiveJournal site where you can read all manner of journalistic appeals, and the public’s response (think ‘whores,’ ‘vultures,’ etc.) – God bless them. The site is the cyber equivalent…
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Virginia Tech
Jack Shafer posts a typically abrasive column at Slate on the VT killings which concludes: As reporters intrude into the lives of the grieving to mine the story, they should be guided more by a sense of etiquette than ethics. If they don’t risk going too far, they’ll never go far enough. I was early…
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Do African governments deserve to be taken at face value?
The news out of Zimbabwe in the Times has a friend of mine in Angola complaining: …the paper fails to point out that the Angolan government has denied this story as ‘a gross lie.’ If the US government made such a denial would the Times omit it? … The Angolan authorities might not be telling…