The website "Southern Spaces" published a study of TV News during the civil rights era in 2004. It does not focus on Alabama as much as Virginia and Mississippi, but it is still instructive about the way the white media ignored or sided with the white power structure during the civil rights movement.
A story in Sunday's New York Daily News includes an interview with a woman who was on the bus when Parks was arrested.
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More and more viewers are coming up to say hello while I'm off
duty and out shopping, eating or attending various events. I think that
may be a result of the increasing viewership of early morning TV news,
and the ability to watch the morning news on demand on the Alabama News Network website.
I jokingly ask why they're waking up so early!
I always enjoy meeting viewers. It helps me visualize the folks on the other side the camera lens.
AND The NY Times was content to use unverified information for their story about the suspect arrested for the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting.
Did the Times figure it was OK to used unverified conjecture about the suspect because he was charged with a terrible crime? Is there no presumption of innocence in that the paper anymore?
When did the goal-lines for standard journalism ethics change at the so-called "paper of record"?
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a longtime feature of timlennox.com]
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AND The NY Times was content to use unverified information for their story about the suspect arrested for the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting.
"He seemed to have a separate life online. An online personals ad seeking women in North Carolina interested in bondage and sadomasochistic sex showed a picture that appeared to be Mr. Dear and used an online pseudonym associated with him. The same user also appeared to have turned to online message boards to seek companions in the Asheville area with whom he could smoke marijuana.
Did the Times figure it was OK to used unverified conjecture about the suspect because he was charged with a terrible crime? Is there no presumption of innocence in that the paper anymore?
When did the goal-lines for standard journalism ethics change at the so-called "paper of record"?
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And a positive about The NY Times---they are at the forefront of the approaching journalism Virtual Reality, reports Wired. The future of newsgathering may have consumers immersed in a story to not only learn about it, but to feel it too.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a longtime feature of timlennox.com]
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