Yes, and it gets messy. Fortunately it doesn’t happen that often.
Category Archive: Q & A
It can be, but not typically, and no, serious errors don’t happen that often – at reputable news outlets, anyway.
Raw information can be very valuable. Often when news breaks, tweets and other social media posts with photos, video, and eyewitness observations are the first indications of what has happened. However, raw news is UNVERIFIED.
News can be entertaining, and entertainment can be newsy, which makes it increasingly difficult for news consumers to tell the difference. Shows like “The View” often blur the line between journalism and entertainment.
It’s not easy, but verifying information in places where it is logistically and politically difficult — and sometimes dangerous — is the job of foreign correspondents.
All the time. But only occasionally does such a disagreement itself become a major news story, as it did this week for reporters and editors at The New York Times.
It may look like the news outlets are unfairly ganging up on the vaping industry, but in fact, journalists are behaving rationally and responsibly in their sweeping coverage of this story.
“Exclusive” is probably the most overused word in the news business. Journalists love to invoke it and do so liberally because it drives traffic to a story and confers prestige on the reporter and news outlet.
There are no boring stories, just boring storytellers.
Two words: Bad. Things.
