Posts Tagged balance
Because Fair Isn’t Necessarily Balanced…
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on March 2nd, 2012
National Public Radio has just adopted new ethics guidelines. We can only hope they signal the beginning of a wide trend in the media. The new code stresses the importance of accuracy over false balance; it appears–finally–to abandon the “he said, she said” approach (what I have elsewhere called “stenography masquerading as reporting”) that all [...]
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Policy and Polarization
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Free Speech on April 18th, 2010
Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]
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