The Media on the Media
- A panel discussion on ethics and the [new] media in the Online Journalism Review.
McBride: Frankly, we’ve never been that sharp in the entire journalism industry on ethical-decision making. We tend toward rule-obedience because it promotes efficiency, rather than true critical thinking. But we could hide our weakness behind the fact the we only came out once a day or a couple times a day. Now that the news cycle is eternal, we are finding it’s not enough to have one or two assistant managing editors who can think through critical decisions and make the right call. Everyone at every level has to be versed in the foundations of values and principles of good journalism. Is that happening? Slowly.
- Editors of the Washington Post acknowledge to have underplayed stories questioning the threat posed by Iraq.
There was an attitude among editors: Look, we’re going to war, why do we even worry about all this contrary stuff?
- Laurence Lessing on the ever-expanding reach of copyright law:
As media becomes more concentrated, competition to curry favor with politicians only increases. This intensifies during an election cycle. Networks able to signal that they will be “friendly” – for example, by ensuring that embarrassing moments from interviews won’t be made available to others – are more likely to attract candidates for interviews and so on, than networks that don’t.
- Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh can’t use certain scenes from TV programs showing how Pim Fortuyn was demonized for his movie about this murdered politician.
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