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The paper I worked for in the 1990s, the Regina Leader-Post, is still a good case study. It didn't hire a full-time staff reporter between 1990 and 1995 and shed several editorial jobs through attrition, cut back on rural coverage, eliminated at least one contract job and reduced the editorial budget in general. And in [...]
Tue, September 28 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
From the San Francisco Chronicle … To add to it, the Washington Post was one of the more aggressive papers in uncovering CBS's journalistic misconduct. Yet it didn't even do an official mea culpa on the Iraq-WMD issue the way the NYT did, even though it made the same errors. W-P media writer Howard Kurtz [...]
Tue, September 28 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
Here was a couple of items from the Globe this weekend on the CBS memos: CBS shelves war feature URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040925.wcbs0925/BNStory/Entertainment/?query=rather or http://tinyurl.com/4e4pt E-mailers vent wrath at Rather URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040925/RATHER25/TPEntertainment/?query=rather OR http://tinyurl.com/5szfa Here is an excerpt from the latter: >>> “The campaign appears to originate from a blogger on the website Rathergate.com, who is forwarding [...]
Mon, September 27 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
In todays nytimes.com story, there is an interesting paragraph: “By the accounts of Mr. Rather and other officials, they began to understand that their defense was unsustainable last Thursday, when Mr. Burkett confessed to CBS that he had lied about where he got the four memorandums. While he had initially said he gotten them from [...]
Tue, September 21 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
Hi folks: I'm currently on holidays with limited Internet access. I'll be back behind the keyboard on Oct. 1.
Tue, September 21 2004 » Main Page » Comments Off
A potpourri of columns I found interesting in the last few days (you gotta be registered at nytimes.com to read 'em; it's free). A World of Nuclear Dangers - Part of the NYT's big issues series. To my mind, a grave nuclear danger they missed is the fact that Pakistan might be one coup away from [...]
Mon, September 20 2004 » Main Page » Comments Off
From nytimes.com … (reg. req.) Bill DoskochToronto, ON http://billdoskoch.blogware.com ———– CBS News Concludes It Was Misled on National Guard Memos, Network Officials Say By JIM RUTENBERGPublished: September 20, 2004 After days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a “60 Minutes'' report that raised new questions about President Bush's National Guard service, CBS News [...]
Mon, September 20 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
The Washington Post's take on how CBS handled the memos (reg. req.) … Bill Doskoch Toronto, ON ——————– In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries By Howard Kurtz, Michael Dobbs and James V. Grimaldi Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, September 19, 2004; Page A01 In the early-morning hours of Sept. 8, Dan Rather was [...]
Sun, September 19 2004 » Main Page » Comments Off
From latimes.com … (registration required) Bill DoskochToronto, ON —————– In the Rush for a Scoop, CBS Found Trouble Fast Its report on Bush's Guard service offers a cautionary tale in an age of growing competition. By Josh Getlin, Elizabeth Jensen and Scott Collins, Times Staff Writers NEW YORK – It was 11 a.m. on [...]
Sun, September 19 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
From nytimes.com … Bill DoskochToronto, ON ————————– This Time Bill O'Reilly Got It Right By Frank RichPublished: September 19, 2004 IF a stopped clock is right twice a day, why shouldn't Bill O'Reilly be right at least once in a blue moon? When Fox News's most self-infatuated star attacked CNN for keeping James Carville and [...]
Sun, September 19 2004 » CAJ-L postings, Media » Comments Off