NEW YORK TIMES standards editor Philip Corbett recently issued a memo to NYT’s reporters and editors concerning the use /abuse of anonymous sources. The document, posted on Gawker, is interesting reading for media watchers. I can’t speak to what’s going with most other papers, but I read the NYT a fair bit, and now that I think [...]
Entries Tagged as 'New York Times'
All the names that aren’t fit to print
September 3rd, 2010 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters
Tags:anonymous sources·editing·media·New York Times·newspaper·Philip Corbett·reporting·standards
Facing reality
August 8th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters
THE COVER of the Aug. 9 issue of Time has generated a fair bit of controversy among those on both sides of the debate over the war in Afghanistan. The magazine’s front features a disturbing image of an 18-year-old Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off as punishment for fleeing an arranged [...]
Tags:Afghanistan war·mutilation·New York Times·Richard Stengel·Taliban·Time magazine·violence
Keeping Apple honest
July 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
NEW YORK TIMES media columnist David Carr had an interesting piece in last Sunday’s paper looking at the role Consumer Reports played in the iPhone4-reception debacle. The magazine said it can’t recommend the phone because of issues with the antenna, which wraps around the outside of the device. If the phone is held a certain way, dropped [...]
Tags:apple·Canada·Consumer Reports·David Carr·Gizmodo·iPhone4·New York Times·Steve Jobs·wireless
Jobs: ‘I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers’
June 14th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
EARLIER THIS MONTH at the D8 Conference near Los Angeles, Apple CEO Steve Jobs discussed the impact of his company’s latest gadget: the vaunted iPad. In an interview, Jobs was asked whether this new technology – which, among other things, provides print-news organizations with a tool to offer digital content in a more engaging and interactive fashion than through conventional websites – will “save journalism.” “One [...]
Tags:apple·Clay Shirky·digital media·iPad·journalism·media·new media·New York Times·newspapers·Steve Jobs·technlology·Wall Street Journal·Washington Post
Gold in the Great White North
February 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Oh Canada, Sporting Life
CANADA IS basking in the afterglow of Alexandre Bilodeau’s triumphant winning of the country’s first-ever Olympic gold medal on home turf. TV networks have been playing the victorious performance on repeat and have pumped up their patriotism; Twitter’s all abuzz (a Canadian is a trending topic!); and there’s even word the Royal Canadian Mint will [...]
Tags:2010 Winter Olympics·Alexandre Bilodeau·Charles McGrath·Dale Begg-Smith·Goergia·luge·moguls·New York Times·Nodar Kumaritashvilion·Olympics·Own the Podium·Royal Canadian Mint·Twitter·Vancouver·Whistler
iPad to the rescue?
January 30th, 2010 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
THE BIG NEWS of the past week – at least for those of us who await Apple’s latest toys with bated breath – was the unveiling of the much ballyhooed iPad tablet. The unfortunate name choice aside – are there no women working in the Apple marketing department? – print media people have been debating the [...]
Tags:apple·digital media·Financial Times·iPad·iTunes·magazine·New York Times·newspapers·pay wall·Sports Illustrated·Steve Jobs·Wall Street Journal
Conan: King of late night
January 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
THE MEDIA has been abuzz this week with news that NBC will bump Conan O’Brien and The Tonight Show up to midnight and move Jay Leno back to his 11:35 slot. I think they’re making a big mistake. I understand that the ratings for both men have been weak, and that Jay performed better than [...]
Tags:Arnold Schwarzenegger·Bill Clinton·Conan O'Brien·David Carr·David Letterman·Fox·Jay Leno·Late Night With Conan O'Brien·Masturbating Bear·Mike Tyson·Monica Lewinsky·New York Times·The Simpsons·The Tonight Show
2009: The year that was, but not really
December 26th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Celebrity Scandal, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
THE WASHINGTON BUREAU chief for the Toronto Star, Mitch Potter, had a great piece in last Saturday’s paper: ‘This year the joke was on us.’ Potter declared 2009 a year of “false news” – capping an entire decade of faux news and “reality” shows; a decade that, appropriately enough, began with overwrought Y2K doomsday predictions that never amounted to [...]
Tags:Balloon Boy·Bernie Madoff·Frank Rich·Howard Kurtz·Mitch Potter·New York Times·Ponzi scheme·Toronto Star·Twitter·Washington Post·White House
Brave new (media) world
September 30th, 2009 · View Comments · Around the World, Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
LAST WEEK the Washington Post issued an in-house social media policy, guidelines to govern the conduct of its staff on Facebook, Twitter or other online social networks. “(These) can be valuable tools in gathering and disseminating news and information,” the policy states. “They also create some potential hazards we need to recognize.” The policy covers some stuff that’s [...]
Tags:bias·Facebook·Fox News·journalism·New York Times·social media·transparency·Twitter·Washington Post
A digital disguise
April 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Currently, Media Matters, Pop Culture
A RECENT New York Times story looked at how some news organizations have been re-examining whether online commenters should be given anonymity – or a “digital disguise,” as reporter Richard Perez-Pena says. Anyone who reads comments on news stories (and who doesn’t) knows that the anonymous ones tend to be useless and obnoxious – the [...]
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Tags:comment·digital media·Huffington Post·Leonard Pitts Jr.·New York Times·New Yorker·news·Richard Perez-Pena·Washington Post