Monday, December 04, 2006

Journalism 101

The NYTimes discovers you can easily buy polonium.
Hmm...they must be reading my blog...just joking. Actually, this story came out eight days ago, in FreeRepublic by the poster Rightwingassault ....

Crittenden summarizes the AP vs bloggers dispute about a non existent Iraqi police source, not to the AP's credit.

And what do you write when journalism students cheat on an ethics exam? You spend most of the article quoting students whining that their degree was devalued, not about investigating the fraud.

And does the press essentially rephrase Bush's speeches so to mislead their readers?lYes, says a book that analyzes the themes of the speeches and the very different themes in the news reports.

The last three headsup are from Blogfather.
And from PajamasMedia: Dennis Miller dares to say what most of us think:


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