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it's a fine line
interesting how news and sensationalism are so close together some times.
tonight, discussions about responsible journalism went on circling around a video of an elected official apparently laying hands on a cameraman. with no charges filed, can we call it a crime, can we call it an attack. we know that the guy behind the camera is calling it an attack. we know what the tape shows. well, we know what the clip we were sent shows.
i think as journalists it is best to give the readers (and viewers) as much raw information as we can scrape together and present it to you in a responsible manor and let you make the decision.
we tried with our main story here on the website and in thursday's paper. i think it's a good story pieced together by half of our writing staff.
stan talked about it, so check out his take on it at his blog.
also, gordon's blog is about ready to go live so check out his musings real soon on our blog central spot on timesherald.com.
--jb--
tonight, discussions about responsible journalism went on circling around a video of an elected official apparently laying hands on a cameraman. with no charges filed, can we call it a crime, can we call it an attack. we know that the guy behind the camera is calling it an attack. we know what the tape shows. well, we know what the clip we were sent shows.
i think as journalists it is best to give the readers (and viewers) as much raw information as we can scrape together and present it to you in a responsible manor and let you make the decision.
we tried with our main story here on the website and in thursday's paper. i think it's a good story pieced together by half of our writing staff.
stan talked about it, so check out his take on it at his blog.
also, gordon's blog is about ready to go live so check out his musings real soon on our blog central spot on timesherald.com.
--jb--
posted by jb at
11/21/2007 09:23:00 PM
1 Comments:
Whatever happened, the pres. should have realized how unbelievably bad that looked. If you're a public official, you DON'T touch anybody in anger. You just DON'T. Is that so hard to get? Even when you're right, you're wrong.
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