Today in stories that simply sell themselves.
Identifying The Daily Caller as a “news site” is highly generous to their hackery.
May 25, 2012
May 14, 2012
NBC’s David Gregory, host for Meet The Press, is headlining a conference for a major Republican advocacy group. The problem? It violates the journalism code of ethics:
— Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived.
— Remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility.
— Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and shun secondary employment, political involvement, public office and service in community organizations if they compromise journalistic integrity.Read the rest at ThinkProgress.
image via joeparrie
April 16, 2012
The powerful and horrifying photo that won this year's Pulitzer Prize
Holy shit. WOW.
(Source: think-progress)
April 4, 2012
"Unconscious or not, altering the tape in this way was incredibly unfair to Zimmerman, and incredibly stupid for NBC . How did they not think they would be caught? The real tape is out there."
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the rank stupidity of altering the Zimmerman tape. (via theatlantic)
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April 3, 2012
February 24, 2012
Up the Burma Punx! Great, great Der Spiegel piece on Myanmar’s punk rockers and the military junta’s war on them. Worst I had to take as a teenage Chaos UK fan was the occasional beatdown or egg thrown from a moving car; these guys and girls have to deal with much, much worse. Great piece of reporting.
February 23, 2012
...And Here Are The NYPD's Secret Dossiers On NYC-Area Mosque Sermons
Amazing, amazing files obtained by the Associated Press. Holy h311…
PDF. Important.
October 7, 2011
"Modern establishment journalists have taken what should be the credo and mission of actual journalism — afflict the powerful and comfort the powerless — and completely reversed it"
— Glenn Greenwald in a positively scathing editorial on the mainstream media’s coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests (via downlo)
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October 7, 2011
wnyc:
The first Guardian data journalism: May 5, 1821
Ooof.
Data journalism, 1821, cc @jkeefe
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October 5, 2011
The Office Politics of the New York Times Op-Ed Page - The Atlantic Wire
Absolutely fascinating kremlinology.
