The New Republic has an article about journalists’ experiences in Haiti (including our fare hero, Anderson Cooper). An interesting statistic:
Still, as of yesterday, CNN and CBS both had about 50 staffers in Haiti, and Fox had 25. (ABC and NBC almost certainly had similar numbers but we were unable to obtain them; the major papers were considerably more restrained, with The New York Times and Washington Post both claiming about ten employees.)
It’s difficult to figure out what to feel about photos like this. On one hand, Anderson Cooper is a journalist who should be covering a story rather than creating one. However, on the other hand, Haiti requires all the help they can get. This sort of thing came up hypothetically in James Fallows’ book “Breaking the News” that I am currently reading (link to Chapter 1):
He asked Jennings to imagine that he worked for a network that had been in contact with the enemy North Kosanese government. After much pleading, the North Kosanese had agreed to let Jennings and his news crew into their country, to film behind the lines and even travel with military units. Would Jennings be willing to go? Of course, Jennings replied. Any reporter would-and in real wars reporters from his network often had. But while Jennings and his crew are traveling with a North Kosanese unit, to visit the site of an alleged atrocity by American and South Kosanese troops, they unexpectedly cross the trail of a small group of American and South Kosanese soldiers. With Jennings in their midst, the northern soldiers set up a perfect ambush, which will let them gun down the Americans and Southerners, every one. What does Jennings do?
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The most ambitious non-profit news venture yet. The idea seems to be working in San Diego.
Archive.org has a collection of archived news footage from September 11, 12, and 13.
Actual quote from a San Diego Union Tribune article:
Neither Merriman nor Tequila had tweeted about the incident as of Sunday morning.
P.S.: How many ways can San Diego athletes manage to potentially screw up their bright futures?
Here’s what the simple unemployment numbers on the news won’t tell you: 15.6% unemployment rate for people with no high school diploma, 4.7% unemployment rate for college graduates, 5.4% unemployment rate for management and professional occupations, and 13.8% unemployment for natural resources and construction. From Matthew Yglesias.
…to wake you up in the morning.
Much of Ms. Head’s account was posted on the Web site of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network, a nonprofit organization for which she served as president and as point person for corporate donations. But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified. [From In a 9/11 Survival Tale, the Pieces Just Don’t Fit - New York Times]
The composition and the content of this photograph are both amazing. On one half you have Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai being shot and on the other you have a group of protesters being beaten back.
After the jump, a graphic video of Nagai being killed.
Big news today, Scooter Libby was found guilty on one count of making false statements, another count of obstruction of justice, ad two counts of perjury. This was a fun trial and it might not be quite over yet. Libby’s lawyer stated that they intended to file a motion for a new trial and, “if that is denied, we will file an appeal.” He also added, “We believe Mr. Libby eventually will be vindicated.”
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American Public Media’s show Marketplace put it best when host Kai Ryssdal began the show when they said:
Any lingering doubts you might have had that this was a global economy should be gone by now… Even before traders hit the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, you know which way the arrows were going to go, you just didn’t know where things would land before the closing bell rang. Listen.
Today’s fall was the worst since the attacks on 9/11 and affected markets worldwide all because the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell by almost 9% last night. The main market indices in Euronext lost at least 2% today. Australian indices lost more than 3%. The Dow, Nasdaq and the S&P 500 all lost at least 3% with Nasdaq almost approaching 4%. Analysts are not sure whether this was a one day thing or the beginning of a “major market correction” but only time will tell.
I don’t get some journalists. I realize that it might be every journalists dream have their story read and passed around but some take it to pretty extreme ends.
This morning, for example, I woke up to a headline that read “Hezbollah sinks Australian warship“. From the sound of it, I figured something horrible had happened while I was asleep and Hezbollah had killed hundreds of Australian service men. I clicked the link only to find out that this was untrue and that Hezbollah was only doctoring photos.
This is a lot better, in my opinion, than killing people. The only purpose of the headline is to further demonize Hezbollah. What if somebody like myself had only read the headline? I would be walking around with misinformation, an offense similar to that of Hezbollah.
So newspapers, please do everybody a favor and cut down on doctoring headlines, especially if the article itself is about forgery.
I should also probably mention that it is my dream to, one day, become a journalist.
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