Obama, Gates, Crowley Meeting: Race Relations or Beer Commercial?
With the help of the media, the "teaching moment" among President Obama, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police…
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AP is Watching YOU : New meta-tag “beacons” track copyright violators
Journalism.co.uk reports the Associated Press has just announced its Big Brother-like "news registry." It's a "new system" that embeds meta-tags…
The U.S. government’s legacy of wartime media control
"Freedom of the Press" is not a given during wartime. IconicPhotos, a blog that features "Famous, Infamous and Iconic Photos," writes…
Newseum’s Online Doctored Photo Exhibit
In 2001, the Newseum in Washington DC first posted an ongoing online exhibition titled, "The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of…
‘Non-News’ is bad news for NPR’s audience: bin Laden son story
NPR's headline sounded newsworthy enough: "Bin Laden Son Reported Killed In Pakistan." Mary Louise Kelly writes in her lede: "U.S.…
Japanese TV falls for fake photo scam featuring Kim Jong-Un
AFP reports that in June, TV Asahi Japan broadcast "an exclusive image" of Kim Jong-Un from a "reliable person in…
NY Times Kid Texting Photo: Staged danger?
"Were we safe? Probably not.... As journalists, we are not here to judge or to direct, but only to observe…
South Shore Press says photo doctoring okay
Fred Towle Jr, director of sales and marketing for the weekly newspaper, The South Shore Press, told The Southhampton Press…
Walter Cronkite saw problems with “news sources on the Internet”
In the Washington Post live Q&A section, Marlene Adler, chief of staff to the late Walter Cronkite, was available to…
Hearing Stories, Telling Stories
The author and her colleague John Aini. John is the director of Ailin Awarness, a conservation NGO in PNG The Pig…