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A New York Times reporter is facing jail time over her refusual to identify a source in the Valery Plame case. The twist is while she did reporting on it, she never published a story. Here is my CAJ-L posting ——————- From nytimes.com … Bill Doskoch Toronto, ON —————– Reporter for Times, Silent Over Sources, [...]
Fri, October 8 2004 » CAJ-L postings, Main Page » Comments Off
From ctv.ca. Danny Rather's equals stick up for him and decry the blog-based political attacks on him over the memo imbroglio. Oh well, it's the new journalistic order. … Bill DoskochCTV.ca scribblerToronto, ON http://billdoskoch.blogware.com ————– Rather's fellow TV anchors offer him support Associated Press NEW YORK – While acknowledging mistakes in CBS anchor Dan Rather's 60 [...]
Sun, October 3 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
From nytimes.com. Ah, those wacky Fox News types! … Bill DoskochToronto, ON http://billdoskoch.blogware.com ———- Fabricated Kerry Posting Leads to Apology from Fox News By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: October 3, 2004 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 – Plenty of news media analysts thought Senator John Kerry looked good at Thursday night's presidential debate, but Fox News went a [...]
Sun, October 3 2004 » CAJ-L postings, Main Page » Comments Off
From phillynews.com (via online-news). It's on the whole blogging/Rathergate affair. The author thinks some bloggers are out to destroy journalism. To a certain extent, I agree. Bill DoskochToronto, ON ———– Posted on Sun, Sep. 26, 2004 Center Square | Cries of 'media bias' hide sloppy thinking By Chris Satullo (editorial page editor, Philadelphia Inquirer) (excerpt) Here's what [...]
Sun, October 3 2004 » CAJ-L postings » Comments Off
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
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
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