PressEthic

No this post is not about the baseball playoffs. It’s about The New York Times and their embarrassing defeats in the last few years. With players like Jayson Blair, Judith Miller, and several sketchy anonymous sources, it has been argued that maybe the Times is not the record that we once thought.

The first matter before the Supreme Court this term is the assisted suicide law on the books in Oregon. Is this the beginning of a trend for the Court under John Roberts?

Judith Miller is out of jail. So why doesn't The New York Times want us to know?

News reporting is a business, reporters write for an audience, and capitalistic principals of supply and demand will always prevail.

It is true that the one wonderful thing about a newspaper is that you can take it anywhere, from the subway to Central Park, and you won’t lose your service connection.

People in all kinds of careers ask the same question we do: is it more important to be fast, or to be careful?

What’s a picture really worth?

Several emebeded journalists in Iraq war stayed only few days and then published books about their experiences

While China recently vowed to keep the foreign media away, via the internet, from its citizens, it seems a little strange to be hearing in the The New York Times today about the newest edition to Chinese media, Vogue Magazine.

Layoffs abound, and newspapers are clearly worried about staying afloat. So what do you do? Try a new argument.

Magazines and the art of printing letters to the editor.

The US government produces video stories to promote its policies. The problem is that they look exactly like real journalistic stories. And the government seems to expect TV stations to broadcast them just like any other news story.

Conservative pundit and former drug czar of the George H. W. Bush administration recently got himself in some hot water due to some outrageous comments he made on his radio program about race and abortion. Yet, if anyone took the time to look at the context of his remarks, they'd see he was being neither racist nor pro-abortion; he was simply making a rhetorical point. Still, most news reports led with the comment and buried the context, prompting calls for Bennett's resignation and enraged Op-Ed columns across the country. Where's the responsibility of the media?

What happens when a major daily leaves out a fact?

Neil Young gets mad. Real mad. Then he tears up your newspaper at a press conference.

Armstrong Williams, the latest to join the ranks of untrustworthy media professionals.