Breaking News from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting:
- WaPo Can’t Believe White Supremacist Senate Candidate Really Means It
The Washington Post defines (and laments) Corey Stewart's embrace of white supremacist ideas, and the people who act on them, not as him being a white supremacist, but as "court[ing] white s… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Clicks Over Ethics: Careless Coverage of Suicide
How the media portray suicide directly affects how our culture handles it, and the stakes for irresponsible reporting are high. As the CDC states, the phenomenon of copycat suicides, or suicide cluste… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Nilay Patel on AT&T/Time Warner Ruling, Sam Menefee-Libey on J20 Update
It's true the government didn't make much of a case, and that the judge doesn't seem to understand how the internet works; but the deeper truth may be that we need to fundamentally reth… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Elon Musk’s Latest Brainstorm Takes Aim at Meddlesome Media
Tesla's CEO has taken aim at the very press that has lauded his vision and business acumen in the past, and provided him the initial platform for converting readers and viewers into True Musk Bel… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Korean Voices Missing From Major Papers’ Opinions on Singapore Summit
In major-paper opinion coverage of the Singapore summit, the people with the most to lose and gain from the summit, the people whose nation was actually being discussed—Koreans—were almost uniformly i… (Click on article title to continue reading)
Breaking News from the Center for Media and Democracy:
Breaking News from Columbia Journalism Review:
- The last independent newsroom in Turkey
The streets of Istanbul are transformed into something like a festival ahead of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. Just about every street in the metropolis of 20 million is… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- The immigration syllabus: 10 essential stories
IMMIGRATION NEWS EXPLODED THIS WEEK, trending in a major way for the first time since the travel ban, displacing jobs and healthcare as the key issue in the run-up to the midterm elections. Journalist… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Headlines editors probably wish they could take back
IN THIS WEEK’S LOWERCASE… A newspaper had an unfortunate, yet funny headline typo about last night's Heat-NETS game. http://t.co/0iIX4kFfOL pic.twitter.com/lze3c3WWVt — FOX College Hoops (@… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Remembering Charles Krauthammer, conservative giant
For decades a thought leader in the conservative movement, Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer died yesterday at 68 from cancer of the small intestine. The longtime Washington Post columnist and… (Click on article title to continue reading)
- Podcast: How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
On the latest episode of The Kicker, Pete and Nausicaa talk about coverage of the border crisis that has been dominating national news for the past week. The public outrage that forced President Trump… (Click on article title to continue reading)
