I didn’t realize it until this morning. I have not watched CNN in more than five weeks. Since Ted Turner set loose the Chicken Noodle Network in June 1980, I have watched […]
Building my own news machine, whether I like it or not
Snow job: sick nasty shreddin' at The Times' website? Huh?
“OMG!” I thought. There, on the website of the Gray Lady — a moniker attached to The New York Times for its past penchant for words over photographs — was a headline […]
Gene Randall 'Reporting,' Inc.
My article published yesterday in Columbia Journalism Review:
Former CNN correspondent-turned-PR consultant Gene Randall’s video “report” for oil giant Chevron might be unprecedented for how it blurred the line between public relations and journalism. But the Randall-Chevron production raises not only ethical questions, but also the question of whether a surge of newly pink-slipped reporters might go, as one media critic put it, “over to the dark side” and how that might further muddy the line between news and corporate advocacy.
Sen. McCain and sex? It only seemed like a good story
Perhaps the most disingenuous word a journalist can deploy is seemed. My newsroom godfather taught me that the use of seemed, seems or other forms of the word means the reporter is […]
It's hack 'n' whack time at The Times: 100 newsroom cuts planned
It is a good time to be a deceitful politician or a pay-for-favors lobbyist or a crooked corporate CEO. That’s because the profession that is charged in a democracy with ferreting out […]
Edwards will step up Iraq troop withdrawal
From the New York Times: John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan […]
