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It was right there in my Reporting 101 textbook at the University of Delaware: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” The point being that a lot of problems with journalism can be cured by checking and double-checking everything. Tim Porter reminds us how important this basic practice of journalism is…or should be.
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: Headline rhetoric…
Check it Out
Tim Porter tells us that the media is under using one of the basic tenets of journalism: