Kenneth Irby
Apr. 20, 2013
1:34 am
On Monday, veteran photojournalist John Tlumacki captured the iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing: runner Bill Iffrig knocked to the pavement on Boylston Street in front of a trio of police officers, each seemingly headed in a different direction.… Read more
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Al Tompkins
Apr. 19, 2013
6:59 am
Boston journalists were awake through the night as they covered the tragic news unfolding in and around their city.
As the country awakes today, it will discover that the person who police believe is “Suspect #1″ in the Boston bombing … Read more
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Roy Peter Clark
Apr. 18, 2013
4:00 pm
My colleague Al Tompkins reminds journalists to remember the case of Richard Jewell as they cover the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Jewell was the security guard wrongly accused of the bombing at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta.… Read more
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 16, 2013
3:10 pm
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The debate over national media coverage of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, accused of performing gruesome illegal abortions and killing at least one woman, continues to rage since Kristen Powers'
Thursday column in USA Today. The accusation from Powers has sparked some outlets to respond about their plans for coverage.
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple
wrote on Friday that as far as national media coverage goes, the Media Research Center's NewsBusters site has been
accusing the mass media of ignoring Gosnell since January 2011, when MRC President L. Brent Bozell III wrote that the "radio silence" on the case was shameful. Wemple says the ensuing debate is now "a bona fide media question."
On those occasions, the Erik Wemple Blog brings the matter to the attention of any allegedly offending news organization or journalist. At that point, a pretty common transaction unfolds. We are not at liberty to quote news organizations or journalists, but we can say that, when presented with questions that have their origins in MRC/NewsBusters research, the typical response is something along the lines of ”Get out of my face with this agenda-driven stuff, and come back when you have a real story.” (more...)
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Al Tompkins
Apr. 16, 2013
7:09 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 15, 2013
3:59 pm
Two explosions occurred near the Boston Marathon finish line today around 3 p.m. ET. Some people have reportedly lost limbs, while others are unconscious. There are mixed reports about how many people have been injured, but Boston Police say three people have died. Here's how journalists are covering the tragedy.
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Joshua Gillin
Apr. 12, 2013
3:59 pm
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The trial of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia doctor accused of performing illegal and particularly grisly late-term abortions, has garnered copious media coverage in the last week, mostly about the perception there is little national media coverage of his alleged crimes.
Following an op-ed by Fox News political analyst and Daily Beast contributor Kristen Powers in USA Today, a firestorm of controversy has erupted between media outlets saying the story deserves more attention and those arguing otherwise (the trial began March 18). Powers wrote that the gruesome details of the case -- scissors used to sever the spinal cords of late-term babies born alive, patient deaths, an unskilled staff barely maintaining a filthy office -- are only some of the reasons outlets like the New York Times, the AP and the Washington Post
should be providing more (and more explicit) coverage.
Let me state the obvious. This should be front page news. When Rush Limbaugh attacked Sandra Fluke, there was non-stop media hysteria. The venerable NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams intoned, "A firestorm of outrage from women after a crude tirade from Rush Limbaugh," as he teased a segment on the brouhaha. Yet, accusations of babies having their heads severed — a major human rights story if there ever was one — doesn't make the cut.
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Kelly McBride
Mar. 19, 2013
11:45 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 18, 2013
6:51 am
Journalists took to Twitter Sunday to criticize the media’s coverage of the
two teenage boys who were found guilty in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case.
Lauren Wolfe,
Xeni Jardin and others called out CNN’s Poppy Harlow and Paul Callan for
sympathizing with the men and highlighting that the woman who was raped was “allegedly drunk.” On Monday, F
ox News, CNN and MSNBC aired the woman's name. Think Progress called the move "
an act of serious journalistic negligence."
“What I’m so furious about, after the act perpetrated on this young woman, is our media’s take. Mainstream media, of course, reflects society -- so in this case, they reflect rape culture. But shouldn’t we expect more from the media? Aren’t there such things as news judgment and context and analysis?” said Wolfe, director of the
Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege project.
“Why is nearly no outlet ... bothering to ask what’s wrong with masculinity in this country, with the arrogance of those defending a football team rather than a young woman who was violated? How could the media possibly be putting the emphasis on [the fact that] the girl drank? Did the boys not drink?”
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 12, 2013
6:06 am
Stories about bullying often follow a predictable narrative with a “villain v. victim” arc that leaves little room for nuance.
Slate’s Emily Bazelon raised this issue on Monday in her South by Southwest talk, “Digital Drama: Growing up in the … Read more
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