The Media Drop

Nick Madigan details the concern that has arisen across the mass media about the use of certain terms, such as “refugee,” when describing those who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Some of the problems are with terms considered possibly racist in nature, or, more specifically, the context of how those words are used, whether […]

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Last month, Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede was fired from his position at the newspaper after recording a phone conversation with a troubled former city executive. In Saturday’s New York Times, Terry Aguayo reports that DeFede will not be charged by Miami or Florida officials for his actions, which violate a state law that telephone […]

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Over at BusinessWeekOnline’s Blogspotting, Stephen Baker writes about how a reader of that blog doesn’t fancy so much the use of the term “refugee” to describe those individuals who have lost their homes and ways of life in the Southeastern U.S in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As far as style and usage goes, it’s […]

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If you’re looking for the other side of the horrible tragedy that’s taken place in New Orleans and other parts of the Southern U.S., then drop by A Small Victory, where Michele is compiling as much positive news as she can. Through all of what has happened, there are many stories of people helping other […]

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In Monday’s edition of the Christian Science Monitor, Barbara Kelley writes about her surprise to how some of her journalism students at Santa Clara University reacted towards the need for truthfulness and constant ethical behavior in journalism and the level of difficulty it takes to be good at the job.

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It’s been pretty apparent in recent years that the staggering amount of material online is ripe for the picking for those who would love to plagiarize other works. At the same time, institutions of higher learning and other groups have found it just as easy to search out source material for papers, articles, and other […]

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The Princeton Packet’s Rachel Silverman details a summer journalism program at Princeton University that teaches high school-aged students about the ins and outs of journalism - but in this case, the participants are “from underprivileged backgrounds.” This is what one of the professors, Richard Just, calls “a very small step” towards increasing diversity in the […]

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Over at OpinionEditorials.com, Robin Mullins Boyd posts a harsh criticism of the media, focusing on the lack of positive news coming out of Iraq on a regular basis. Boyd claims many positive tidbits of information are freely available, and that if she can find it, then “big media” should be able to do the same.

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In a column set to run in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Bob Norman continues the skewering of the Miami Herald regarding the firing of columnist Jim DeFede after he admitted recording a phone call where the person on the other end - a former local government official who would shortly afterward shoot himself […]

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In an item surely set to cause a stir with some Americans, some editors of the Oregon Daily Emerald detail the “ban” put in place by the Russian government against ABC after they interviewed a Chechen leader wanted in Russia. It seems that since the news network did something that Russia didn’t like, it will […]

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