The Ethics Committee of the Society of Professional Journalism Decries Checkbook Journalism – Again – With News Coverage of Casey Anthony
No Surprise Here!
SJP reports:
The revelation this week that ABC News paid a second source close to the Casey Anthony murder trial – raising the total price of exclusive coverage to $215,000 – underscores a growing trend of buying news content and it stands to undermine journalistic credibility, the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee said today.
ABC News and other networks have paid licensing fees for exclusive information in the past, and those practiceshave been challenged by SPJ as undermining news legitimacy and creating an environment of “truth-selling.”
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The Dark Side of the News Coverage of the Casey Anthony Trial
The Ethics Committee of the Society of Professional Journalism Decries Checkbook Journalism – Again – With News Coverage of Casey Anthony
No Surprise Here!
SJP reports:
Read full story here.
Tags: Casey Anthony, news coverage of murder trials, sensationalism in news reporting
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 9:09 pm and is filed under I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, News/Commentary/Opinion, State of Journalism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.