Conduct & Content

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That’s it, I’m done with the Internet!

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The news outlets you don’t want to trust are the ones where the data have to fit the story line before they’re news. At Fox, the value of an economy story comes from how bad it makes the usurper look.

VS WHERE NEWS GOES WHEN IT DOES NOT FIT AN IDEOLOGY:

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Love this critique of entrepreneurial journalism: 

  "A “special ethical standard” is not something to be poo-poohed. It is actually the only thing that distinguishes journalism from advertising. Businesses thrive by becoming popular. Journalists piss people off every day in order to sleep well at night — they are (or should be) engaged in an unpopularity contest. Businesses win by exploiting conflicts of interest. Journalists win by exposing them.  To pretend otherwise is just so much exculpation and self-delusion." 

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The rapid spread of online misinformation was voted one of the top 10 trends facing the world in 2014 by members of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. In this third installment in the PBS MediaShift series on the 2014 Trends in Newsrooms report, Julie Posetti and Craig Silverman report on social media verification trends. Read the other installments here: Part one, part two and part three.

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The New York Times’ graphic front page photo puts the Gaza conflict into stark relief

5 questions to ask before publishing graphic images

When are news photos too disturbing too share? http://wapo.st/1zOnSIN 

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Sounds a bit like the Chinese Whispers on digital steroids: #fail News outlets referred to 800 baby skeletons being found, which is flat-out wrong. No skeletons were found, much less 800 of them. Fact checking would have revealed that what was found was 796 death records for children living in Tuam, Ireland at the Catholic Church-run home for mothers and children. Irish historian Catherine Corless, who obtained the records, only suggested the bodies may be in a disused septic tank. But, as the Associated Press' correction noted, this speculation can't be determined as fact without analysis.