Category: journalism
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The Malcontent recommends …
“A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power and Jayson Blair at The New York Times”: A first-rate documentary about a true sociopath reveals just how much Blair got away with while working for the paper of record. In one year alone, he had 23 corrections. Blair still seems unable to take complete responsibility for his egregious behavior.…
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Today’s reading assignment
The “Fall of the House of Tsarnev” in today’s Boston Globe is a great piece of journalism.
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Bloomberg News sells its credibility to the Chinese
The investigative report they had been working on for the better part of a year, which detailed the hidden financial ties between one of the wealthiest men in China and the families of top Chinese leaders, would not be published. In the call late last month, (longtime Bloomberg News editor in chief Matthew) Winkler defended…
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How-to and how-not-to conduct interviews with dissemblers
Actor Stephen Fry does it the right way, letting the subject drown in his own absurdity. MSNBC “journalist” Thomas Roberts, meanwhile, cedes the high ground with amateurish, heavy-handed questioning. As Albert Brooks’ character said in “Broadcast News,” “Let’s never forget, we’re the real story, not them.”
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PR exec to replace Ted Koppel
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No Test Score Left Intact
A fairly remarkable piece of journalism by the AJC, which analyzed test results for 69,000 public schools and found “high concentrations of suspect math or reading scores in school systems from coast to coast.” Suspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest cheating scandal in American history, an…
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