Mistakes Happen
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A new weblog, "Regret the Error," is devoted solely to reporting on newspaper errors.
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
A new weblog, "Regret the Error," is devoted solely to reporting on newspaper errors.
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The U.S. Education Department paid $700,000 to the Ketchum public relations and marketing firm, to produce two video news releases and to rate newspaper coverage according to how favorably reporters described the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law in 2003. Democratic Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Edward M.
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The Education Department promoted the No Child Left Behind law with a video news release featuring "reporter" Karen Ryan.
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"Can a journalist be too truthful?" That's a question that some media pundits are asking after Farnaz Fassihi, the Wall Street Journal's Middle East correspondent, sent a private email to friends with an unusually candid description of the deteriorating U.S. control over Iraq and the dangers of doing her job there. A copy of her email began circulating on the internet. "One could argue that Iraq is already lost beyond salvation," she wrote.
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Having "held the fewest solo news conferences of any president since records were kept" - 15 so far - may be hurting George Bush in the debates.
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Journalism professor Jay Rosen has written another of his characteristically long-winded but thoughtful ruminations on the fallout from the Dan Rather memo affair and what it means for the long-running battle between conservatives and the "liberal media," as well as for the more recent contest between traditional media and online bloggers.
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The Wisconsin Advertising Project estimates that "many voters - nearly 60 percent - have not been exposed to any of the 530,000 campaign ads aired so far in the most expensive presidential campaign ever." A companion project researching local TV news "found only 44 percent of local stations offer[ed] any campaign coverage at all in the 2002 elections.
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Slate magazine editor Jack Schafer wonders why it took CBS anchorman Dan Rather so long to back away from two now-discredited memos that were part of the documentation for its story about George Bush's National Guard service.
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After terrorists besieged the Beslan school, a "semiofficial" document circulated among Russian networks demanded "media self-censorship ... 'Special operation' was prohibited, as was 'shahid' [suicide martyr] - a word that, along with the phrase 'war in Chechnya,' has already been prohibited on state TV for a year. ...
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After seven AIDS activists disrupted a Pennsylvania campaign appearance by President Bush, "Secret Service agents ... supervised the arrests and detention of the activists and blocked the news media from access to the hecklers. ...
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