In October of 2014, online sports news website, Deadspin published a story that questioned what U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner has said publicly about his time playing high school football. Deadspin’s story suggested Gardner didn’t play any football, but it was incorrect. Editor Tommy Craggs wrote an apology with the headline, “How Deadspin Fucked Up The Cory Gardner Story.” This […]
Posts tagged with credibility
Errors in reporting: a very straightforward apology
Posted by: Savannah Norton | March 28, 2016 | No Comment |
under: Comm 455
Tags: apology, credibility, errors, false reporting, News, savannah norton, snorton, Sports
Tags: apology, credibility, errors, false reporting, News, savannah norton, snorton, Sports
Errors in reporting: Rolling Stone’s campus rape story
Posted by: Savannah Norton | March 14, 2016 | No Comment |In November of 2015, Rolling Stone published a feature about a gang rape that allegedly occurred at a frat party at University of Virginia. Rolling Stone’s Campus Rape Story was one of the most cautionary tales of confirmation bias in journalism. Journalism website, Poynter, comments that,”It’s also an example of how to not to behave […]
Coup de E’tat on the Radio : How Corporations Took Over the Media
Posted by: brianjblend | September 21, 2014 | No Comment |Once upon a time, in the early 1920’s, 40 percent of the radio stations in the United States were operated by non-profit, non-commercial broadcasters. New kids on the block, NBC and CBS decided that this was not good for their profit-model, so they pressured Congress to regulate the airwaves. Congress, ever receptive to corporate interests, […]
41 hours after an explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia that trapped 13 miners, the nation woke up relieved to see headlines reporting 12 of the 13 miners alive. Headlines in newspapers like USA Today screamed that twelve miners had beaten the odds. However, joy and happiness turned into grief and anger as […]
CNN, Fox News reporting of healthcare ruling puts credibility in question
Posted by: jak9265 | September 11, 2012 | No Comment |Get it right the first time! That is what Jon Stewart of The Daily Show practically meant when he emphasized the huge blunder that CNN and Fox News had committed when they wrongly reported on the Supreme Court ruling of the Affordable Healthcare Act. Thanks to electronic news these days, it is easy for mistakes like […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: CNN, credibility, foxnews, healthcare ruling, jesusalvarez, Political Reporting
Tags: CNN, credibility, foxnews, healthcare ruling, jesusalvarez, Political Reporting
When We all Have a Voice, Who do We Listen to?
Posted by: markherbert | November 8, 2011 | No Comment |The earliest newspapers played it safe by limiting coverage to foreign news. Why risk publishing something the monarch or church didn’t like? In 2011, one of the most common complaints about U.S. media is that it doesn’t cover international news as much as other countries do. Why? Nathan Lustig, a successful college-aged entrepreneur, blogger and […]
under: Comm 455
Tags: credibility, Danielle Roussey, earthquake, Facebook, foreign news, FOX NEWS, nathan lustig
Tags: credibility, Danielle Roussey, earthquake, Facebook, foreign news, FOX NEWS, nathan lustig
Revised 7.7.2011 7:17pm My original idea for this blog entry was to discuss the inaccuracy of certain news providers. Specifically, I wanted to call out Fox News. Mentioning Fox News in many classroom discussions typically results in laughter. Students and professors alike appear to reject Fox News as a credible news source. As I […]
under: Uncategorized
Tags: Content exposure, corrections, credibility, Danielle Roussey, FOX NEWS, Hits, media diet
Tags: Content exposure, corrections, credibility, Danielle Roussey, FOX NEWS, Hits, media diet
Reporting is more than rewriting off the internet
Posted by: bellen | October 27, 2010 | No Comment |Reporting has come a long way since America and England were connected by a telegraph cable. Before that time, newspaper publishers had to wait for the mail to arrive with the news. Often, they would print stories that were little more than idle gossip. Unfortunately, some of those stories were false resulting in a public […]
We all make mistakes. Sometimes we can correct them and sometimes we can’t. Those who work in journalism have to correct their mistakes. If they don’t correct their mistakes they run the risk of losing their credibility. A journalist with no credibility is quickly unemployed. There are those who say that there is no such […]
Few historical figures have impacted the world like Adolf Hitler did. In 1983, Gerd Heidemann, German journalist announced that he discovered the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler. He sold the publication rights to West German magazine Stern for 10 million German marks (estimated $6 million USD). Prior to publication, Heidemann claimed to have received the diaries from a “Dr. […]