#responsible reporting

Raiding the Rock Vault Las Vegas Has Some Serious Explaining To Do….

Over the past couple weeks, I have been talking to a couple of people who have brought to my attention a few issues with the well known Las Vegas music show, Raiding The Rock Vault. While where I got the stories is not so important, however what they told me is rather interesting to me.

I have on good authority that the cast of the show has not been paid in over three months! How is it that…

Mac Miller died Friday of an apparent overdose … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … Mac was found Friday around noon in a bedroom at his San Fernando Valley home, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. 

CORONER LEAVING MAC’S HOUSETMZ.com

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WE CAME AS ROMANS Singer KYLE PAVONE Died Of Accidental Drug Overdose

  According to TMZ, Kyle Pavone, vocalist for the Michigan metalcore act WE CAME AS ROMANS, died as a result of drug abuse. The surviving members of WE CAME AS ROMANS confirmed the report, saying in a statement that “we lost our son, our brother, our best friend, and bandmate to an accidental overdose.” The Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office in Michigan has told the celebrity tabloid…

Which is great - call out the media when they fail, absolutely.  That’s our obligation.

But CITE YOUR SOURCES.  Don’t just say “this happened!  You need to be outraged!”  Give us a link to follow back on, an eyewitness we can get firsthand reporting from, some sort of evidence we can use.

A theme of this class is how the media shapes our understanding of public health. I love the New York Times, but I think it was a bit ridiculous to chronicle what happened to Dr. Spencer and where he went leading up to his hospitalization.  What’s the point of this? I think all this article serves to do is encourage the public’s misplaced fear of catching Ebola.  Increasing the hype around that fear diverts our attention from the far more pressing crisis abroad.

one of the top running stories of the day on the Sydney Morning Herald website is a story about a teenager being killed in a car crash with her father and sister. alongside this story they've chosen to run one picture of her smiling and another that's a PG-nude bathroom selfie of the 15-year-old now dead girl. my mind is just boggled at how they couldn't decide that running only one image of her was better than running another that borders on child porn.

in no way is this a condemnation of the girl taking the picture, or posting it wherever it was that smh.com.au found it. she's a teenage girl, we all did the exact same thing at that age and lots of us still do. whatever, no judgement. what i do find vile and reprehensible is that adults who have a duty to report responsibly chose to run a revealing, personal image of someone who cannot consent or object to it. someone who is underaged and deceased.

There are 4.5m+ UK businesses employing 22.5m. SMEs account for 99.1% of all enterprises & 59.1% of private sector jobs. Most are owner operator directors with their life savings on the line and their homes underwriting their businesses.

FTSE directors are normally employees of their shareholders. Most have parachute protections at every turn. Their pay and benefits are a complete anachronism to 99.9999% of company directors. But their remuneration is a commercial decision for their non-executive directors and shareholders.