“We don’t seek to do good. … We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism.” So says Gawker editor-in-chief to Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz.
Gawker straddles disparate worlds, Kurtz writes, with headlines like “Forget Fire Crotch, Here’s Quasar Crotch” on the one side, and hiring former Tribune reporter John Cook to perform very real journalism and file FOIA requests, or and past practices, such as paying bloggers bonuses for high-trafficked pieces, on the other.
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A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
This is the problem with journalism today. Journalists historically sought to do good. They sought to expose the wicked and to proclaim the truth. It was the journalist's mission to promote good in their stories, especially in light of a biblical worldview. How far we've fallen!
#1 Posted by Robert Clarke, CJR on Mon 22 Jun 2009 at 08:50 PM