Friday, December 9, 2005
‘Explicit’ Manhunt ad leads to school official’s resignation
By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
The Washington Blade (Washington, D.C.)
Published: 12/09/05
Excerpt:
The origin of the tip was not mentioned in the [Richmond, Va.] Times-Dispatch
stories, only that it received "telephone tips." The paper did not
explain in its stories why it did not publish the name of who tipped
off the paper.
"It's very important who tipped off the paper and why," said Kelly McBride,
the Ethics Group leader at the Poynter Institute, a media studies
organization in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Everybody has ulterior motives,
it's best to reveal ulterior motives for what they are." [...]
McBride said the Richmond newspaper didn't explain to its readers why the story was newsworthy.
"The paper needs to justify the news value in it," she said.
Often in stories about sex and sexuality, wrongdoing is alluded to but not explicitly explained, she said.
"There's never a story that explores what about [Johnson's] act was
offensive and so, as a reader, you're left to project your own lens on
it," she said. "Is it the fact that he was using an online service, a
questionable online service? Is it the fact that it was a gay service?
"It leaves people assuming because it has to do with homosexual behavior, it's bad." McBride said.
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