Archive for the ‘State of Journalism’ Category
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
D:F/M has been in a state of academic stasis for years and years but in recent years Colleagues have resorted to all manner of fabrications to cover up its failings. What follows reveals a venial sin/omission compared to a mortal sin/omission (catechism from Catholic schools still resonates slightly). It also could be merely a mistake.
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Tags: Aronson Awards, Bernard Stein, Hunter College, journalism, Kimberly Devi Milner, Pulitzer Prize winners, The Hunts Point Express, The Riverdale Press, unethical journalism
Posted in Blogroll, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Ethics, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, SCAMS, State of Journalism, Student Journalism, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Send Peter Parisi a message so that James Aronson can stop turning over in his grave.
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Tags: Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, Hunter College, James Aronson, news censorship, Parisi
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Monday, April 1st, 2013
March 22, 2013 – A federal judge has ruled that a New York City Transit Authority rule requiring people using the city’s transit system to carry ID is unconstitutional. The decision is a victory for the New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit in November, 2011 defending the public’s right to take photographs in the subway system without fear of being arrested or having to show identification to police. Full story here.
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Saturday, March 30th, 2013
Mario Scott
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Tags: D:F/M, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, journalism, undergraduate journalism
Posted in Blogroll, Ethnic News, I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, New America Media, State of Journalism, Student Journalism | Comments Off
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
As if he was reading my mind:
When I first stumbled into blogging over 12 years ago, it was for two reasons: curiosity and freedom. I was curious about the potential for writing in this new medium; and for the first time, I felt total freedom as a writer. On my little blog, I was beholden to no one but my readers. I had no editor to please, no advertiser to woo, no publisher to work for, no colleagues to manage. Perhaps it was working for so long in old media that made me appreciate this breakthrough so much. But it still exhilarates every day. [Full Column here]
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Tags: blogging, journalism, The Future of Journalism, writers
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Al Jazeera, financed by the government of Qatar, reportedly purchased Current TV: NYT - Al Jazeera Seeks a U.S. Voice Where Gore Failed: “Going forward, the challenge will be persuading Americans to watch — an extremely tough proposition given the crowded television marketplace and the stereotypes about the channel that persist to this day.” Full NYT Media Decoder story here.
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Tags: Fox News, Journalism Today, Rupert Murdoch
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
![Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]](http://blog.hunterword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peewee-parisi-21-187x200.jpg)
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
Tags: First Amendment, Freedom Of The Press, news censorship
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
At the D:F/M faculty meeting today, irate Colleagues expressed plans to censor the WORD? They said they were upset that the department’s dirty linen was being exposed across the spectrum of the Internet.
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Tags: academic freedom, censorship, Civil Liberties, D:F/M, U.S. First Amendment
Posted in Blogroll, Civil Liberties/Journalism, Commentary, Ethics, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, The Black Press, The Controversy Continues | Comments Off
Boycotting the Aronson Awards – D:F/M Colleagues Seeking Surcease for Peter Parisi’s Faux Pas
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
Tags: First Amendment, Freedom Of The Press, news censorship
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