We live in a culture where the latest episode of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” pulls in more ratings than the Republican National Convention during the 2012 presidential election. The latest TLC phenomenon, “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” is a prime example of how sensationalized news is undermining the foundation of ethical journalism. “Here Comes Honey […]
Archive for October 2, 2012
Sensationalism and “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”
Posted by: chelseamorris | October 2, 2012 | No Comment |There is a new website heavily promoting the use of word of mouth called Rawporter, which offers rather nice benefits to users or “rawporters” who post pictures and videos on the homepage of this site. Rawporter’s claim is this; with the increase of social media sharing of pictures and videos across the web, any large news […]
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” […]
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Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
Tags: fear and loathing, hunter s. thompson, jeremy eley, Journalism, magazine, Storytelling, the rolling stone
People have always had an innate desire to know what’s going on around them. As Professor Klein worded it in class, “News doesn’t like a vacuum.” When their need for information is not fulfilled, people become very nervous and frightened. Take the Dark Ages, for example. Literacy was much lower in this time period than […]
It is amazing how quickly blogs became a primary means of communication for individuals online. In the 1990s, however, most people regarded Web pages as things to read and not a place to publish or post. The growth of the Internet has allowed blogs to become a competitor to newspapers and other traditional mainstream sources […]
Rachel Maddow: political pundit of our generation
Posted by: jgermano | October 2, 2012 | No Comment |After hearing Professor Klein mention political pundits in class on Thursday, I thought it would be interesting to write about Rachel Maddow, a popular political pundit who has proved to be influential in the media, especially considering the upcoming presidential election. She holds politicians accountable, like in this video where she criticizes Mitt Romney for lies about […]