Archive for the ‘Journalism’ Category
Friday, July 24th, 2009
This is a moment in history when serious discourse is necessary but here comes the seriously insufficient and deficient news reportage, exemplified, on short notice, by this story published by the New York Daily News, the only big urban daily ever found guilty in a federal discrimination lawsuit of of abusing the job rights of people of color on its editorial staff.
[It also has to be said, based on old Press Clips from the Village Voice and other news sources whose specific names and dates don’t come to mind right now, that Italian Americans also had rough times at the News because of their ethnicity].*
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
… Also in Queens and the Bronx
Health E-News – NYC Gov. on Jul 21, 2009 – Six rabid animals – all raccoons—have been identified in New York City this year. Four were found in the Bronx, one in Manhattan (near Inwood Hill Park), and one in Queens (Long Island City). Raccoons are the most commonly reported rabid animals in New York City.
Considering the breadth of local broadcast news coverage in the last few days, one would think that an  animal story of this magnitude would be popping up on the screen.
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No direct relation to the ones identified in NYC boroughs
Not so (so far).
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Tags:health news, mainstream news media, rabies, Rupert Murdoch, slow news days
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Brown, a no-show tonight. John Roberts fills in. Â Race shows up, though not the lead story, but in prime time view:
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Tags:Campbell Brown, CNN, Obama, Obama not an U.S. citizen
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Help FAIR, Healthcare Now!, Physicians for a National Health Program and the Raging Grannies deliver a message to the news media: “Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate” Petition delivery, Tuesday, July 28, noon – 1 p.m., ABC News, 77 West 66th St., between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, NYC.
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Tags:"Prescription Formula for America", ABC, FAIR, healthcare, Michael Moore, Physicians for a National Health Program, raging grannies
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
I watched and listened to some of the hearings. I did not wretch. Same for a few on-air news analyses and commentaries (CNN, Channel 13-PBS, assorted ABC, NBC, et. al. affiliates and nationals). I should have checked the local news broadcast in Peoria but didn’t have the presence of mind (but it’s coming).
Nevertheless, I did not wretch.
I hung in there as long as I could – much, much longer than I did for the Michael Jackson spectacle – until it became clear she would sail through. And then I read New York Times Frank Rich’s column today and realized my mistake. I’m seriously considering a mini-doc now that I know what I missed but it’s not as much of a miss as the mainstream news media. It’s merely a missed opportunity that can be corrected.
Check this excerpt:
“Much of the audience was surely driven away by the sheer boredom of watching white guys incessantly parse the nominee’s “wise Latina†remark. This badgering was their last-ditch effort to prove that Gingrich was right when he called Sotomayor a racist at the start of the nomination process. She confronted that overheated controversy directly. “I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judgment,†Sotomayor testified. “
Read Frank Rich’s New York Times Column here.
Tags:Frank Rich, Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
This former Newsday Middle East bureau chief is a former student of mine who is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is also an assistant professor at NYU. I came across his keynote 2009 speech at the City University of New York Baccalaureate Commencement exercise while researching the Do Not Remove Any Documents!!! project. He told the assembled students and families and friends great war stories.
But I know of two he didn’t discuss about his experiences as an undergraduate student journalist who was paying his way through college with freelance fees earned at Newsday as well as with journalism scholarship and award money he had won. He often tipped me off so that I could clue other student journalists trying to jumpstart their careers while working their way through Hunter.
[It’s easy to say that he has contributed to the journalism experiences and careers of Hunter students more than many if any of my colleagues in D:F/M.]
All of his war stories – those told at the commencement and the two that I describe below – attest to his remarkable aplomb in the face of adversity.
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Tags:Council on Foreign Relations, Courier News, CUNY BA, D.C. Office of the Chief Medial Examiner, death of newspapers, Hunter College, journalism internships, Mohamad Bazzi, New Jersey Newspapers, Newsday, NYU, Rutgers-State University of New Jersey, Washington Post, Weather stories
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Tags:ethnic news media, Ethnic News Reporting, Eunji Jang, Korean Times, New America Media, Odette Kelly, suicides, suicides among Korean Americans
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, News/Commentary/Opinion | Comments Closed
Tell the News Media to Get It Right
Friday, July 24th, 2009Keep up the pressure for a media debate on healthcare reform that includes single-payer.
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Tags:FAIR, health care
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