Journalists are supposed to be objective. But when a story gets weird, the journalist has an obligation to convey that. If a government behaves badly, the journalist is duty-bound to point it out. If he’s emphatic about it, that’s OK. Audiences and news managers like passion in storytelling, as long as all sides of the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
4 May
Readers hate change
Criticism is easy. We should know, right? It’s much easier than coming up with original material that at least passes for and is packaged as journalism. How easy? In his blog Certain Speculation, CB Hackworth demonstrates that criticism can be effectively delivered by a four-legged critter with a brain the size of a walnut and [...]
4 May
Winne Watch 5.4.09
“This is the guy you want people to take a good, close look at.” WSB’s Mark Winne, interviewing Snellville police chief Roy Whitehead. “The guy” is suspected of killing a young mother in a Target parking lot. He’s wearing a wig and a fake moustache. The surveillance video is almost impossibly pixelated; the disguise likewise [...]
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