#journalistic standards

The editor had one job. I don't think making Germans cry* was that job.

I hope this is going (even more) viral**.

*for several reasons

For reasons connected with due accuracy and impartiality, the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines say, ‘The term “terrorist” should only be used with attribution, i.e., when quoting or citing its use by others.’ As the ECU saw no material difference in this context between ‘terror group’ and ‘terrorist group’, it found the use of the phrase complained of was a breach of the BBC’s editorial standards.

Bullshit.

1 st day: Media Self-Regulation and Journalism Standards Roundtable and Workshop for Journalists and Journalism Standards Training;

“Journalistic Standards” Have ALWAYS Been About Lies, and–In Some Cases–Advancing Causes.

So-Called, “Journalistic Standards,” seem to have almost always been concerned with journalism as an “engine” of agendas. How could it not?

The Real Face Of USA General George Washington. Reconstructed.

From the moment that the colonials received word of Britain’s new taxes in 1764 until reports of the peace treaty arrived in 1783, the press constituted the major source of information about…

You Lost Me At “Horrible”

I was reading an article by Jason Easley, “The Russians Are Getting Heavily Involved In The Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight“.

Good article, well researched, it cited Hamilton 68 information and shared a few graphs. It seemed fair and objective and I was about to blog it when I got to the final two paragraphs.

Then an overwhelming bias took over the author and my previous assessment of fair and…

Don’t say make an unstated exception allowing anti-immigrant or anti-disabled slurs and dehumanization, and an unwritten rule banning other posts objecting to slurs and dehumanization.

https://www.theguardian.com/community-standards