June 1, 2004
Required reading…
Students in my JRN371 News Writing and Reporting and MED581 Issues in Media Ethics classes this fall will be required to read Daniel Okrent’s latest ombudsman column in The New York Times.
One of the many things I like about this column is how well it illustrates the primacy of the structural biases as predictors of journalistic behavior. And, following from that, it illustrates how poorly simplistic accusations of political bias predict behavior. But, then, such accusations are not about cogent media criticism; such accusations are about ideological struggle (i.e. spinning the news product for consumers to achieve political goals).
Posted by acline | June 1, 2004 | Posted in: Main | Comments (2)
Here’s a very long and comprehensive look at what makes news biased, written by a logical and methodical thinking engineer http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2004/05/Notesonpressbias.shtml
I’ve taken a very quick look. I’ll need to spend some time with it boefore I can comment. I’ll do so in a post tomorrow.