Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

National Catholic Reporter Announces It Will Restrict Its Commenting Services, Due to "Dramatic Increase in Trolls and Disruptive Comments"

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Last week, I pointed you to some valuable (and worrisome) commentary about how trolls are trashing open discussion spaces online and...
Friday, February 13, 2015

David Carr on the Importance of the Little People to Journalists Seeking Truth

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New York Times  journalist David Carr, who died yesterday , talks about his first big break as a young journalist investigating police br...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "High Time for Catholic Publications" to Include Women in Leadership Structures

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(One of the good droppings):  Heidi Schlumpf, commenting at National Catholic Reporter  on the lack of women's representation in...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

And Another Quote: "The Whole Point of the Professional Journalistic Creed Is to Form a Closed Circle of Gatekeepers"

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Scott Tucker And yet another quote: Scott Tucker at Truthdig on (mainstream) journalism as a form of priestcraft for states whose sp...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

New York Times Staff Openly Critique (Their Own) Biased Journalism

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It would be interesting to know whether the Occupy movement--particularly in New York City--has helped raise the awareness of New Yor...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Glenn Greenwald on Cronkite's Legacy: Character and Integrity

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As a follow-up to my tribute to Walter Cronkite yesterday , I’d like to note Glenn Greenwald’s very fine article “Celebrating Cronkite Whil...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Walter Cronkite: In Memoriam

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We weren’t, God knows, a conventional family. For one thing, we were Southern, and that put us well outside the social mainstream. For ano...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

The Journalist's Mission: To Discover Hidden Truth

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I like Bill Moyers. Have always liked him. He strikes me as one of those rare voices of unalloyed integrity in American journalism, voic...