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Proposal: Schools should teach students to read newspapers
Posted by Ted Mohr 4/4/2006 5:17:10 PM

This may be a good idea in those states like Florida where there is at least one newspaper which present ideas from the left, but in most states if would be impossible to present any balance as all of the sources are from not just the right but from the FAR right! In my state all the respresentative from the eastern part tool campaign contributions from Tom Delay and his associates, but when I as a Washington state resident and taxpayer attempted to call this to the attention of the Spokane Spokesman-Review their reply was: we only publish letters from our circulation area. All I can say about that is at least they let me know they had received by letter and that they did not intend to use it. In the past I have submitted many letters to various publications but that was a first!

Psychology teacher
Posted by Patrick Mattimore 4/4/2006 3:06:59 PM

I start most of my psychology classes by highlighting something in a newspaper that involves psychology in some way. Since I frequently write op-eds for our local papers, I will occasionally give students something I have written to critique. I also have a standing extra credit offer for any student who gets a letter to the editor or op-ed published.
I will be highlighting these and some of the other ways I get students critically thinking about the news at a talk I am giving later this month at the Western Psychological Association Convention.
Patrick Mattimore

Re Rich Oppel
Posted by Mark Pinsky 4/3/2006 4:38:45 PM

Did that crusty old reporter back in '63 say anything about the future of the nation's passenger rail system, when predicting the demise of newspapers? Sometimes changes in the culture and technology do spell doom. Mark Pinsky, Orlando Sentinel

Questions for John Robinson of the Greensboro News and Record
Posted by Jeffrey Sykes 4/1/2006 11:52:21 PM

I am asking you here to disclose online the incident involving Carla Bagley.

My questions are:

Did she copy material from another news outlet?

What was copied?

When did it run?

How many words were copied?

How did you find out?

What actions were taken by the News & Record?

What is Carla Bagley's employment status with the News & Record?

Have you begun a process to examine her career's work to determine the extent of her violations of journalistic ethics?

What steps have you taken as an editorial department to ensure there is not a larger amount of unethical journalistic practices by members of your news staff?

Did the plagiarized material appear online?

Was the material purged from online due to this week's server change? I found a google reference to an article with material verbatim from another news source, but the link to your site was broken. Will that link be reestablished?

If I read the paper the day of the plagiarism, but usually read online, do I deserve full disclosure of the incident?

Do you feel that online readers of your news product deserve full disclosure of the incident?

I await your answers, as does the entire journalism establishment.

Where are the posts concerning plagarism in Greensboro?
Posted by Jeffrey Sykes 4/1/2006 12:59:51 PM

Jim:

Why am I finding no mention of the recent case of plagarism at the Greensboro News and Record?

A&A, Pt. II
Posted by R Shaw 3/28/2006 4:47:35 PM

" .. What�s your plan for winning more online ad dollars, when the vast majority of those dollars seem to flow to online portals and aggregators with much greater scale of audience?"

fyi: McClatchy's Raleigh N&O was a pioneer in online services. That is what ultimately help lead to its sale to McClatchy, the costs to upgrade. Did you know that?

Y'know -- after a few years in the biz, it's easy to ask questions.

Why not post a scenario of how you'd like things to be? And let others critique that scenario?

K-R item: asked & answered?
Posted by R Shaw 3/27/2006 10:48:36 AM

Hmm ..

"* Was it coincidence that 8 of the 12 KR properties you immediately put on the sales block were Newspaper Guild operations?"

Yes, and he beat his wife, too.

FYI: very few people would argue that unionized operations are more complex than non-union. Are the new owners just admitting they know their limits?

"* Is the sale of the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times to Dean Singleton�s Media News all-but-a-done-deal, as many suspect?"

Yes, and the wife got beaten again.

FYI: concept is called "clustering." Well-known in business and business journalism. Kind of stating the obvious.

"* Will you give the Yucaipa/Guild bid a wide open shot?"

Yes, and the wife got beaten again.

News-flash: Mgt/union relationships are rumored to be adversarial. As in: how much does Google tell Yahoo!? This is a very delicate matter.

GWU's School of Media & Public Affairs narrows director search
Posted by David Ceasar 3/27/2006 4:35:14 AM

From a March 27 GW Hatchet article by Jessica Calefati

http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/2006/03/27/News/Smpa-Narrows.Director.Search.To.Four-1717697.shtml

As college basketball fans root for their teams in the upcoming Final Four, the School of Media and Public Affairs has selected its own final four candidates for the next permanent director of the school.

SMPA officials announced the candidates - all of whom have high-profile experience in the national media - at Thursday night's meeting of SMPA majors. Finalists, selected from an original pool of 20 to 30 applicants, are Bill Press, Frank Sesno, Charles Lane and Lee Huebner.

"All four candidates have superior qualifications for the position of director," said William Frawley, outgoing dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

Frawley added that "as finalists, they have come through a rigorous process of interviews in which the committee looked very closely at what each candidate has accomplished and what each could do for the future of SMPA."

All four finalists will be on campus in the next few weeks for individual interviews and to meet students, faculty and administrators, Frawley said. He added that he hopes to have a new director chosen by the end of April.

"We expect to make a decision shortly after the last candidate's visit, with the new director starting in summer 2006," Frawley said.

Press was head of the Democratic Party in California from 1993-1996 and is a former co-host of "Crossfire" on CNN Press has also authored four books, co-hosted MSNBC's "Buchanan and Press" and "The Spin Room," and is an award-winning radio talk show host and television commentator.

Sesno, who served as the D.C. bureau chief for CNN from 1996 to 2002, is currently a professor of public policy and communication at George Mason University. Prior to his work as CNN's Washington bureau chief, Sesno served as a White House correspondent, anchor and analyst for the cable network ...

Domenech and Miller
Posted by Scott Butki 3/25/2006 10:33:56 AM

I'm doing a series on news media personalities so yesterday I wrote about this Post screw-up
and one about Judith Miller and how respectable publications should just stop hiring her so maybe she'll leave the biz.

Changing byline doesn't change writer
Posted by Kara Moore 3/23/2006 3:02:01 PM

The student editors at the University of Akron didn't fix the ethical problem of an actress covering her own play by deleting her byline. If they wanted to do the ethical thing, they should have pulled the story and let someone else write it. Concealing the authorship of the article seems more unethical because it deceived readers concerning the bias of the author.

Re Iraq coverage, USA Today & Fox
Posted by Mark Pinsky 3/23/2006 11:29:42 AM

I don't disagree with what Burns says, but it seems to me the blame for not reporting enough of the "good news" from Iraq lies squarely with Fox News: Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. Instead of devoting so many hours of their valuable airtime to missing attractive white women they should allocate of fraction of that time to going to Iraq themselves and reporting all this good news. Mark I. Pinsky, Orlando Sentinel.

Mainstream media, digital revolutionaries need each other
Posted by kpaul mallasch 3/20/2006 9:23:14 PM

Amen to that.

Here's my two (paypal) cents:

http://www.journalismhope.com/node/86

-kpaul

A CHICKEN-HEARTED EDITOR
Posted by Bill Tonelli 3/14/2006 1:25:30 PM

It's great to hear (in the Inky) how gung-ho and aggressive the Philly Daily News people still sound. But what kind of editor would decline to comment and instead direct a reporter to the corporate communications office, as DN editor Michael Day did? If everybody refused to talk to reporters, what would the Daily News run tomorrow? And if Day has such little confidence in his paper and his colleagues, couldnt he have done a better job of disguising it?

CBS and the NCAA
Posted by Nate Carlisle 3/13/2006 8:44:14 PM

What did Craig Littlepage, the director of the NCAA Tournament section committee and the athletic director at the University of Virginia, mean when he told the Associated Press:

�I think what we have to have are more conversations about the partnership [with CBS] and how we need to work better together a little bit. Or at least to have better information and accurate information out there. � ?

His first sentence suggests to me he wants to eliminate criticism from CBS Sports, with whom the NCAA has a financial relationship. I hope that's not correct and I hope someone is asking Mr. Littlepage to clarify his statement.

O'Connor speech missed
Posted by Pat Murphy 3/13/2006 1:54:27 PM

Except for NPR's summary of Nina Totemberg's report, I can't find any major newpaper or wire service quoting former Justice Sandra O'Connor's Georgetown University speech alluding to "dictatorship" in criticizing right wing attacks on the U.S. court system. How come?

UT photo flap
Posted by Matt Olberding 3/13/2006 10:18:28 AM

Ray Wilkerson could have avoided the 300 calls, the angry readers and the embarrassment caused to the UT player by simply using some common sense and not running the photo. No matter how good a shot it was or no matter how well it captured the moment, there was no getting around the "optical illusion" in the center of the shot. As a former community newspaper editor, I can't tell you how many times I had to scrap a good sports photo because of "optical illusions." Though they were good photos, my sports editor and I chose others because we anticipated all the scenarios Wilkerson encountered. I am just absolutely flabbergasted at the Bryan-College Staion Eagle's decision to publish that particular photo.

add this to your site
Posted by Henry Walker 3/10/2006 3:19:06 PM

read these first two articles from the Jackson Sun today and yesterday:

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/search?category=search

the local mayor makes a stupid but relatively harmless remark to the paper's femal photo editor while sitting near her in court . the paper turns it into a story.

O'Reilly-Obermann feud
Posted by Arthur Kane 3/8/2006 5:43:12 PM

Not to defend Bill O'Reilly (Heaven forfend!) but, to this olde tyme network broadcasting exec, the obvious (and unaddressed) question is what O'Reilly's producer in the control room might have heard on tape-delay following "I think Keith Olbermann..." that listeners would not have heard and which may have been a threat or obsecenity -- or whatever -- thereby causing said producer to disconnect and Bill to so intemperately respond.

Art Kane
Barnstable, MA

Why the Bush family is terrified of Katherine Harris
Posted by Kenneth Lamb 3/5/2006 3:27:41 AM

Concerning the candidacy of Katherine Harris in Florida for the US Senate:

I wanted to bring to your notice my most recent "Reading Between the Lines" blog entry entitled, "Why the Bush family is terrified of Katherine Harris." You'll find it at:

http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/

It is admittedly partisan - when will we all become honest enough to admit we all possess a personal agenda? And when will editors stop lying to themselves, to us, and to readers, that a newspaper is not a political player? All newspapers are political players - that is why all newspapers publish editorials and columnists. Stop patronizing your readers by lying to them otherwise - they know you are lying to them already.

It is in my typical no-nonsense style; but I know the readers of this forum can handle hard-core political reality. The picture isn't pretty, but it is the truth. Sometimes the truth is very ugly.

In writing this column, I really felt for those officeholders, journalists, columnists, editors and bloggers who sell their soul to butter-up the Bush family. I really don't see what they have left inside themselves for self-respect. I know they know they are prostituting themselves. I can only surmise that for them, to overcome deep-seated inadequacies, it is just more important to be important than to be dignified.

At any rate, enjoy the column. It will never see mainstream ink because mainstream ink is too intimidated to print columns with this degree of straightforward commentary. Imagine that, we now live in an America that must circulate honest commentary like repressed intellectuals contending with an "official" press.

Thus, my posting of this notice here. It is the ultimate underground "free press" space.

Perhaps newspspers will gain the courage to speak out, valuing integrity over cocktail party invitations, and the approval of those they cover.

Kenneth E. Lamb

tinyurl's in plain-text e-mails
Posted by Mark Hefflinger 3/3/2006 2:35:37 PM

The links in your plain-text newsletters often wrap to the next line, breaking the URL and rendering the link inoperable. Pasting the last bit on the second line into the address bar is a pain.

Any chance you could start using a service like TinyURL.com, which shortens any link to an agreeable size? I do it on Digital Media Wire, and it's not too tedious. To identify where the link is headed, I put the name of the source in parentheses. Here's an example, with a link to a story found in today's Romanesko:

http://tinyurl.com/fkcbm (Washington Post)

Might even be able to code your own URL-shortening service without too much hassle, an *ad-free* version for media-types?

Just a suggestion.
-Mark Hefflinger

Another nail in the NYT coffin
Posted by Kenneth Lamb 2/21/2006 3:37:29 PM

The email by NYT's Sharkey to a Rutgers student inquiring about the paper's intern program (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/ethics_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002035249) just brings home again why the NYT is America's most hated newspaper. I use the word "hate " in its precise meaning; the emotions evoked are deep and powerful. The arrogance and cruelty she showed the world in her email to a promising young journalist exposes again the pervasive imbuing of a decadent corporate culture in the NYT newsroom.

All journalists should notice the lack of response from EE Keller. He is not a leader, or even an intellectual; Keller is an apologist for anything and everything the NYT newsroom does in flaunting its self-anointed impunity from the most basic standards of civil interaction.

Journalists should also notice the lack of response - no, better they notice the "duck and cover" - of publisher Sulzberger in avoiding any accountability by "declining" to talk with Rutgers' Wolper.

What common thread runs between these men? The Miller fiasco illustrated how Keller's direct instructions are ignored without a second thought of penalty, and Sulzberger can be counted upon to ask no questions before wasting millions of corporate dollars for someone who had no authority subsequent to Keller's directive to even conduct the interviews that put her in jail. Neither is capable of controlling the newsroom.

At the NYT, rouge elements roam freely.

Now we have this email showing how the NYT is not only disconnected from the reality of its appeal, but more fatal, its disconnect from possessing the elementary professional etiquette that separates the cultured, from the crass.

Kenneth E. Lamb

Too-clever columnists?
Posted by Dominick Calicchio 2/17/2006 12:38:35 PM

Greetings:
Over the years, I've worked with writers who've used their columns as forums to subtley ridicule their co-workers -- without mentioning their names, of course. I'm sure this type of thing is pretty common in the industry, but in one case, I recall a columnist actually being fired for getting a little too mean-spirited. I'd be interested to read some anecdotes about these kinds of columns -- both for the entertainment value and for the cautionary tales about columnists who went too far.

Dominick Calicchio
Spring City, PA

Inquiry (below) about "bad" links
Posted by Jim Romenesko 2/16/2006 4:25:47 PM

I don't know why you're having problems with links. The E&P link regarding Cheney -- posted on Wednesday -- works fine for me. I assume that's the link you're referring to.

How WP'rs can hold on...
Posted by John VanLandingham 2/16/2006 3:38:22 PM

I'm getting frustrated that so many links, particularly E&P and some of the others, even on same date, open up "lost" or unavailable. Why bother linking if they are unavailable? re today's column with E&P sounding off about cheney's obliviousness to press.

Examiner circulation trick
Posted by Robert Rothman 2/14/2006 10:17:17 AM

Someone should check the circulation figures for the DC Examiner. My wife recently returned to our house in DC after being away for a time and found a pile of Examiners in the mail, and continued to receive them. We never asked for them; we never wanted them; but I'm sure they are counting toward Examiner circulation. At least the paper's free.

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