Blogs about Journalism Ethics

2007-10-17 20:48  Bill shielding BVD-clad bloggers passes House
HR 2102, a House bill that gives the "reporter's privilege" (the right to keep confidential sources secret) to many BVD-clad bloggers, passed the House by a lopsided 398-21 majority. The bill, in the form engrossed as agreed to or passed by the House, defines a "covered person" as follows (Section 4 (2) of the bill): (2) COVERED PERSON -- The term `covered person' means a person who regularly gathers, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes news or informat …
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2007-10-17 20:31  Ideas, smart and stupid, about blogs and journalism
A Los Angeles Times article by Alana Semuels (Oct. 9) discusses the widening intersection of blogging and journalism: The blurred lines make many uneasy. "There's a lot of uninformed opinion on the Internet and not a lot of solid reporting," said Fred Brown, vice chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists' ethics committee and a columnist at the Denver Post. A professional journalist "respects the truth and lives up to standards of ethics. Certainly that isn't the case in the blogospher …
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2007-10-14 03:20  Senate committee votes to give "reporter's privilege" to BVD-clad bloggers
A news article said, Anyone regularly engaged in "journalism," which would seem to include some bloggers, wouldn't generally be forced to divulge confidential sources in federal cases under a bill approved Thursday by a U.S. Senate committee. By a 15-2 vote, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee backed an amended version of the so-called Free Flow of Information Act. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) cast the "no" votes. Some form of "reporter's privilege," either through laws o …
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2007-10-08 16:34  Good News Isn't News, Bad News Is Bad News and No News Is Good News: UPDATED with Wright's Response
[Update below with Robin Wright's [Wapo] response to my email from her contact form which is linked below] The new rules of Journalism, admitted by Robin Wright from Wapo and Barbara Starr from CNN to Howard Kurtz. (Video below) I am SO glad we now know those new rules and how Wapo and CNN determine what is and what is not appropriate to tell American viewers. (Although we already knew that CNN much prefers to report things that they have, admittedly, obtained from terrorist )Huge hat tip to New …
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2007-10-02 01:50  When does a food/drink writer owe full disclosure
Last week, Eric Asimov, the wine critic of The New York Times, published a glowing report of the Portland restaurant scene titled "In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining." It was an incredibly flattering picture -- not about the wine scene, but about Portland's still-evolving food culture, and Asimov heaped praise on several local eateries, including Pok Pok, Le Pigeon, and Paley's Place. Of Paley's Place, Asimov wrote: Costs were a major concern to Vitaly and Kimberly Paley, who arrived with an ea …
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2007-09-30 13:17  The Spectrum
Last month, an unexpected but welcome invitation to speak on Journalism Ethics at the The 4th Spectrum Fellowship: National Campus Journalism Conference came. Since it was conveniently in the last week of the semester, I readily said yes even as I thought it would be a good opportunity to catch up on some old friends there. The Fellowship was held last weekend from Sept. 27-29 at the La Salle University campus in Bacolod. My talk was on day 2, right after Vim Navarro, who trained the student jou …
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2007-09-16 09:25  Raiders of the Lost Tomb (and The Lost Chevron) of Jesus, part 3
  A Visit to the tombs of Dominus Flevit: The Discovery of a Staged Event On Tuesday, May 1, members of our staff visited Dominus Flevit at the invitation of a film production team from the United States who were filming there. With our staff s effort to understand the tomb and its ossuaries, and the film crew s effort to retrace the sequence of events portrayed in the Lost Tomb, a number of œclarifications � may now be offered. This tomb complex is presented in the film as being connected with …
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2007-09-12 07:57  Ed Brayton violates code of ethics of blogging news group
BVD-clad blogger Fatheaded Ed Brayton announced, I have been picked to be a fellow with the Center for Independent Media (which is not the same group as the Independent Media Center, or IndyMedia) and their New Journalist project. What that means is that, in addition to my regular blogging (which will not change), I will be writing for the Michigan Messenger, a new independent online site focusing on Michigan news. The goal of the New Journalist project is to expand the voices heard in the media …
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2007-09-08 22:28  Investigative Journalism under Investigation.
Investigative Journalism under Investigation. Investigative Journalism Investigative journalism is a time-honored tradition that goes back at least as far as the 1880s, when photojournalist Jacob Riis captured the plight of slum dwellers in New York City with an early version of the flash camera. Investigative journalism is designed to call the rich and the powerful to task for transgressions they d prefer to leave swept under the rug. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post on Wa …
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2007-09-07 10:19  The OJB Digest: 7th Sept ˜07
The Rake Today: Lambert to the Slaughter "Next Monday appears to be the date for former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer to reveal his plans for the launch of a professionally edited and reported online newspaper." to onlinejournalism independentjournalism Newspaper offer readers 'Riddle' A British indie feature is rewriting distribution rules by becoming the first to preem as a "covermount" DVD given away free with a newspaper. to televisioninteractivity covermounts film dailymail …
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2007-09-04 12:07  "What the ... !"
"Can't you guys get anything right" I hear that a lot from people who are unhappy with the way we in the mainstream media cover the Church. And it's not just Catholicism the press gets wrong. It's almost all religions and all denominations (though, admittedly, the Catholic Church has a longer and more colorful history than most, and speaks a language of faith that is utterly alien to many people.) Now, Our Sunday Visitor has decided to try and find out why we keep screwing it up : According to R …
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2007-09-03 07:21  I am not a blogger
Recently, my old boss, Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU, penned a response to Michael Skube, who said that by and large, bloggers rely on published reporting from established media outlets and don't provide a great deal of original reporting on their own. Opinion and argument is the currency of the of blogosphere, not reporting - a statement that seems rather self-evident if you spend any time on the Internet. But that's not good enough for Jay. He had to go and find examples of bloggers …
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2007-09-02 02:03  SellING Out
Are you familiar with the ING Bank They have a high-interest online savings account. It's not as good as HSBC's or EmigrantDirect, but you wouldn't know it from all of the marketing they have done. Well, call me shallow, but I fell for one of their gimmicks. Last month, they ran a promotion called " Adventures on the Road to Happiness ," and I decided to enter. Sure, there were thousands of entries, but I am guessing none are as nerdy as mine. One $10K prize and 25 $1K prizes will be given out, …
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2007-09-01 12:38  Idaho Senator Larry Craig Resigns
Senator Larry Craig, whose guilty plea to a disorderly conduct misdemeanor at a Minneapolis-St. Paul airport bathroom effectively tanked his political career, resigned this morning. Craig had been arrested after soliciting an undercover police officer for sex (read a transcript of his arrest interview here and listen to the interview here ) earlier this summer. Today he said: "What is best for Idaho has always been the focus of my efforts and it is no different today. To Idahoans I represent, to …
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2007-08-29 15:28  Edinburgh diary #4 - #11 incl. (except #9b)
And so, the sun sinks shyly behind Fountainbridge Brewery; Faith Brown is placed back in her rubberised coffin for another long sleep; the air-valve on the Udderbelly is unplugged and locals gather to watch fondly as the giant purple cow hurtles erratically around the filthy sky, tracing enigmatic glyphs across the heavens as it slowly deflates and falls to earth, its skin eventually coming to rest like a shroud over the witless forms of the last few standing-still-artists who grace the plaza ou …
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2007-08-28 12:30  Why Most Journalists Dislike Fox News: It's Not the Reason You Think
I've met a new friend in the blogosphere!  I'd like to introduce my readers to Reggie.  Reggie seems to be the brains behind a site called Idea Grove .  They run a blog, Media  Orchard, where Reggie and I exchanged views on the Mike Vick situation.  You can read my original post here. After slapping paws and coming to an understanding, I looked around Reggie's site and noticed the following post.  One of Reggie's less erudite compatriots is Scott Baradell .  Perhaps Scott assisted with this arti …
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2007-08-27 17:45  Making Technology Lie: "Holy-Crap"-worthy resizing of images
John Nack at Adobe links to a video that I saw up on YouTube as well the other day after a friend sent me link, where a couple of incredibly smart people have presented a new way to resize (and otherwise edit) images. And apparently, according to Nack, one of those smart people - Shai Avidan - is working at Adobe now. Here's the video: Technically, it's very interesting, even amazing to watch. From a pure photojournalism ethics standpoint, it's certainly to be considered as yet another real conc …
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2007-08-26 15:26  Will This Young Grassroots Campaigner Prove A Giant Killer
Focus On Cherangany Constituency Parliamentary Seat 2007 General Elections Interview with young aspirant Jesse Masai In keeping with the vision and mission statement of the Kumekucha blogs, I continue to profile some of the younger aspirants in the forthcoming mother of all general elections in Kenya. If you're running and are interested in being featured please get in touch using the email address above. Be warned I'll have to check you out first. Kumekucha: You are facing a political giant in …
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