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Originally posted by jdub297
You can never be too careful if you value your credibility.
I am curious as to how a person's credibility would be lost or removed?
Followup: Do you support that loss of credibility/status for a journalist who doesn't check his YT or Wiki links?
When I upload video I feel powerful. ... Isn't that an empowering of the public which might prove problematic for some people in power?
Isn't YT also kinda insidious from a national media perspective? Like, YT might cause lies to get into the US media, and that would be a bad thing?
Is it that You Tube might cause an increase in lies whereas The Boston Globe doesn't? Is that what we should be concerned about?
Originally posted by jdub297
When you post (i.e., "publish"), you are in effect dealing in information. If an art dealer or rug dealer is shown to be selling fakes, how long will he stay in business, and how would that affect the value of his "inventory?" A legitimate "dealer" of anything valuable will ALWAYS verify its provenance. Fail or cut corners and you risk dealing in (posting) fakes.
In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that purportedly showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq war. A week earlier the pictures had been shown by World Net Daily to be fantasies from an internet pornography site.
Followup: Do you support that loss of credibility/status for a journalist who doesn't check his YT or Wiki links?
Only if the result is misinformation. Since it's easily avoided, there is no excuse for 'dealing in fakes' unless you intend to deceive.
Then, hopefully, you get what you deserve.
Editorial page
At the Boston Globe, as is customary in the news industry, the editorial pages are separate from the news operation. Editorials represent the official view of the Boston Globe as a community institution. The publisher P. Steven Ainsley reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office.
Describing the political position of the Globe in 2001, editorial-page editor Renee Loth told the Boston University alumni magazine:
The Globe has a long and proud tradition of being a progressive institution, especially on social issues. We are pro-choice; we're against the death penalty; we're for gay rights. But if people read us carefully, they will find that on a whole series of other issues, we are not knee-jerk. We're for charter schools; we're for any number of business-backed tax breaks. We are a lot more nuanced and subtle than that liberal stereotype does justice to.
Just look at the state of the "mass media" or MSM. They are dying and terrified. They are looking for tax-exempt status and bailouts. Government is trying to crack dowm; just Google what the UK, Canada, China and Australia have done in the past year. Even in the U.S., people like Rockefeller and Immelt are fearful of the internet generally and bloggers/uploaders specifically.
If the FCC re-adopts the "(un-)Fairness Doctrine", it will not be long before those threatened by free speech and open-minded thinking will call for similar regulation of the Internet.
Big Brother IS watching. And scared by what he sees.
If YT spreads lies, they are in direct competition with MSM, no?
In a perverse way, MSM sees YT as taking away their 'soapbox.' Wouldn't you agree that before YT, the MSM had a monopoly on spreading lies to the public?
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In my jaded opinion, the larger the potential audience, the greater the temptation to push an agenda. Authors in narrow fora (trade magazines, professional journals, educational webinars, seminars, lectures) have little motive to fudge, and not much chance of starting a wave. On the other hand, a national audience almost guarantees word-of-mouth and third-party coverage so that a message, true or not, is more likely to become "common knowledge."
p.s.: Your last post reveals a 'statement-question' style that indicates interview expeience. You write and publish. School paper? Newsletter? E-zine?
On December 10, 2004, he was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head.[19] Sacramento County coroner Robert Lyons determined that it was suicide. Webb's ex-wife, Sue Bell, said that Webb had been depressed for some time over his inability to get a job at another major newspaper.
/wiki/Henry_Clay_Trumbull
Henry Clay Trumbull
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) was an American clergyman and author, born at Stonington, Connecticut, and educated at Williston Seminary, at Yale, and at the University of New York. He was ordained a Congregational minister, served as chaplain of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment in 1862-65, and was in several Confederate prisons. In 1875 he became editor of the Sunday School Times.
To me the point of this story wasn't so much that Wikipedia is unreliable, but more that the journalists didn't verify the links supporting the quote, i.e. they were lazy.
I cannot agree with posters who say that YouTube does not carry reliable or accurate, up to date news items.
Gary Webb - Reporting Awards
1980 — Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, small newspaper division.
1980 — Laurel, Columbia Journalism Review.
1980 — Gerald M. White Memorial Prize for Investigative Reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1980 — Investigative Reporters and Editors Award(IRE), for co-authoring a 17-part series at the Kentucky Post in Covington, KY with Tom Scheffey on organized crime in the American coal industry. [6]
1981 — First place, investigative reporting, Kentucky Press Assn.
1981 — Second place, deadline news reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1981 — Third place, investigative reporting, Cincinnati SDX.
1982 — Third place, investigative reporting, Kentucky Press Assn.
1983 — First place, municipal reporting, Kentucky Municipal League.
1983 — Reporter of the Month, Scripps Howard Newspapers.
1984 — Second place, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1984 — Third place, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1985 — Laurel, Columbia Journalism Review.
1985 — First place, investigative reporting, Northeast Ohio SDX.
1986 — Honorable mention, enterprise reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1986 — Honorable mention, series, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1986 — First place, investigative reporting, Northeast Ohio SDX.
1986 — Gold Medal, health reporting, American Chiropractic Assn.
1987 — First place, legal reporting, Ohio Bar Assn.
1987 — Second place, spot news, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 — Third place, projects, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 — Honorable mention, features, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 — Freedom of Information Award, Central Ohio SDX.
1987 — First place, investigative reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1988 — First place, investigative reporting, Ohio Associated Press Assn.
1989 — Honorable mention, features, Central Ohio SDX.
1989 — First place, series, Central Ohio SDX.
1990 — Pulitzer Prize, in General News Reporting, awarded to the Staff of the San Jose Mercury News for its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. [7]
1993 — Second place, series, Peninsula Press Club.
1994 — H.L. Mencken Award, by The Free Press Association for the series in the San Jose Mercury News on abuses in the state of California's drug asset forfeiture program. 1995 -- California Journalism Award, Center for California Studies, CSU.
1995 — Honorable mention, Gerald Loeb Award, UCLA School of Business.
1995 — First Place, local news reporting, Peninsula Press Club.
1996 — Freedom Fighter Award, California NAACP.
1996 — Journalist of the Year, Bay Area Society of Professional Journalists.
1997 — Media Hero Award, from the 2nd Annual Media & Democracy Congress.
Literary
1998 — Firecracker Alternative Book (FAB) Award, politics, Dark Alliance
1998 — Nominee, Best Nonfiction Book, Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, Dark Alliance.
1998 — Finalist, PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award, Dark Alliance.
1999 — Oakland PEN First Amendment Award, Dark Alliance.
2002 — 25 Books to Remember, New York Public Library, Into the Buzzsaw (contributor)
2003 — Rouse Award for Press Criticism, National Press Club, Into the Buzzsaw (contributor)
College journalism
1975 — First place, specialty column, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.
1977 — Third place, specialty column, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.
1977 — Third place, non-editorial cartooning, Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Assn.
Originally posted by smallpeeps
I am curious as to how a person's credibility would be lost or removed? Followup: Do you support that loss of credibility/status for a journalist who doesn't check his YT or Wiki links?
So my question is: Isn't that an empowering of the public which might prove problematic for some people in power?
I am honestly curious. Is it that You Tube might cause an increase in lies whereas The Boston Globe (for a random example) doesn't? Is that what we should be concerned about?