The Revealer has a good critique of newspaper sourcing practices when quoting “experts” from think tanks. The NYT acknowledge in a story today that they were caught out in their earlier reporting of The Lincoln Group’s activities in Iraq. The Lincoln Group a PR outfit with ten million dollars worth of contracts in Iraq [...]
Entries from January 2006
Creating Neutral Experts
January 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: journalist sources · objectivity paradigm
Answering back
January 2nd, 2006 · Comments Off
Great article in the NYT by Katherine Seelye on the way the internet is changing the relationships between sources and journalists, between the writers and those being written about. It is a great article because it does what good journalism does, it provides a range of points of view while still being pointed in [...]
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