Yesterday’s tea parties may have lacked message clarity, but they more than made up for it by creating an opportunity for papers to feature punny headlines and people in silly outfits. Here’s a sampling of front pages around the country, courtesy of the Newseum.
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Stop with the Jew-ranking already!
“There are some lists that have helped Jews in the past, including, most notably, Schindler’s, but…”
Please continue pronouncing ‘gif’ any way you please
We are all correct
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
This is probably the most prominent coverage astroturf has ever gotten. It wasn't a real rally, it was a Fox News-promoted congregation of crazy people (just read their signs). Yet it was reported on as actual civil unrest.
#1 Posted by Shii, CJR on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 01:57 PM
Ahhhh.....dismissive of the proleteriat now Shii?
At the tea party event I went to, people made and brought their own signs. There were Political people of all stripes there. But I saw no investigative Journalists at the Van Nuys tea parties talking to the public involved.
Instead, all I see is closed minded people following Ezra Klein's JounoList.
I thought people in Journalism were supposed to be skeptical of people in POWER, not those protesting them .
#2 Posted by JSF, CJR on Thu 16 Apr 2009 at 05:53 PM