From time to time I like to check in on how news orgs are doing with their online publishing practices. In particular, I like to review how they handle reports and science articles. So when Oxfam published their inequality report this year, I was keen to see how journalists and their editors are doing. Hyperlinking,…
This particular Code Switch episode on the explanatory comma is itself a kind of extended explanatory comma, or perhaps an interrogatory comma.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-islamophobia-edition/ Guardian Reuters
Good journalists do what they do because they care. They have interests. The organizations that employ journalists also are guided by interests. They have purpose. The Washington Post wears their mission on their sleeve. Their tagline is “Democracy dies in darkness.” This stated vision is shared by many in journalism. If true, journalism has a…
Misinformation is a big deal. Hate online is a big deal. And as the public catches up to their reach and impact, we’ll see more and more talk about regulation of media. Interestingly, news organizations love talking about regulating Facebook. But journalists, and their overlords, are allergic to talking about regulating news. So allergic are…
On my view the news media in Canada have, by and large and in the long run, misrepresented the concept of jihad. They have positioned jihad as a form of villainy. In so doing they have portrayed Islam as a peril…
If you read Canadian journalists on the topic, you might not understand that jihad has some very nice meanings. Most Canadian journalists seem to commonly misrepresent the concept. It’s not just them, mind you. There’s lots of misrepresentation of jihad to go around…
Here’s the A Section of the Globe and Mail. It’s the BC edition for June 2nd, 2018. There are 19 reports and 5 opinion pieces. I counted the weather section on page 22 as a report, and also the Donkey Kong “Moment” on page 2, but nothing on the cover. The cover is arguably editorial…
How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…
What does an Auto Trader, a phone book, a card catalog, a post office, a mall map, Google and a newspaper all have in common…
News orgs make a big deal about fixing typos and issuing corrections. But what if there’s a much deeper trust problem…
I’ve become numb to racism in legacy media in Canada. But to see Canadaland unthinkingly repeat a racist trope angers …
http://about.poynter.org/about-us/press-room/online-course-reporters-covering-islam-launched-wsu%E2%80%99s-murrow-college-and-poynter https://islamforjournalists.wordpress.com/ https://www.rjionline.org/downloads/islam-for-journalists https://pintak.com/ https://www.rjionline.org/downloads/newsbooks Islam for Journalists, Lawrence Pintak, Stephen Franklin (PDF) https://rsf.org/en/news/one-year-charlie-rsf-publishes-jihad-against-journalists https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/rapport_daech_en_web.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jul/07/russell-inquiry-i-was-wrong http://www.cbc.ca/news/climate-change-science-or-politics-1.859967 http://www.ombudsman.cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/complaint-reviews/2010/rex-murphy-on-climategate/ http://www.ombudsman.cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/complaint-reviews/2010/climategate/ http://www.ombudsman.cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/complaint-reviews/2010/rex-murphy-on-climategate/ http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/6/818.short http://ro.uow.edu.au/apme/vol1/iss20/20/ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08821127.2013.767693?journalCode=uamj20 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7312/full/467157a.html
There is a kind of journalist that pretends their work is beyond criticism. It’s an art form. Here’s a rough taxonomy of techniques..
Canadian journalists and other forms of media types rely on press releases written by public relations pros and the problem can be easily fixed by…
In which Colby Cosh calls Stephen Marche a cunt, and then Jonathan Kay and Stephen Marche and Andrew Coyne totally miss the point …
Some thoughts regarding what counts as journalism particularly as it relates to Queen’s Park Today, and subscription news that arrives by email…
The Toronto Star continues to be wrong about “Canada’s only Pulitzer-prize winning journalist”. Yes, Paul Watson won a Pulitzer. But Barbara Davidson has two…
Unfortunately, headlines are, often enough, hyperbolic, clickbaity, misleading, having secondary content, racist, priming, inappropriate or ill-judged. Engaged readers will complain to the author. The author, enraged with righteous indignation, will bark, “I didn’t write the headline…
“Fucking ‘humans’ with their fucking ‘newspapers
In which I expound on reasons why I ache for the central, most important, news publisher in the Canadian media landscape…
Wow. Favourable headline for Rogers
Sometimes, public relations is more journalistic than “journalism
