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Published: 08/31/10

Glenn Beck's 'Blaze' News Site Is Up, With Year-Old Lead Story

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Glenn Beck's 'Blaze' News Site Is Up, With Year-Old Lead Story

(Aug. 31) -- After only one day of "Blazing," Glenn Beck is already looking a bit slow. Today, fresh off his successful "Restoring Honor" rally over the weekend, the Fox News personality launched his new "news, information, and opinion" website The Blaze, leading with the following video expose. It covers Ricardo Dominguez, a University of California, San Diego professor who retrofits cheap cell phones with a simple GPS application to help save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing a perilous stretch of desert between Mexico and the United States. It's an important story, no doubt. So ...

Published: 07/21/10

JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?

By  not in system - AOL News
JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?

(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. In one case, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, now of Wired.com, encouraged his peers to label conservatives racists if they make an issue out of the controversial figure. Ackerman wrote at the time: If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or ...

Published: 06/18/08

Does Journalism Die Today?

By  Tommy Christopher - Politics Daily
Does Journalism Die Today?

I believe that no one should write as a journalist what he would not say as a gentleman; that bribery by one's own pocket book is as much to be avoided as bribery by the pocketbook of another; that individual responsibility may not be escaped by pleading another's instructions or another's dividends. – excerpt, Walter William's Journalist's Creed Update: I just got off the phone with Sylvia Smith, National Press Club President. Our exchange at the end of the story.This is going to be a tough story to write, because it is about something that isn't a news story, that I can't tell you ...

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Published: 02/28/08

Poll: Two Thirds Dissatisfied with Journalism

By  Jay Allbritton - Politics Daily
Poll: Two Thirds Dissatisfied with Journalism

At a conference in New York this week a former executive at a major music label told hundreds of members of the music industry that "music 1.0 is dead." A new poll out suggests that perhaps journalism 1.0 is dead too. A Zogby poll released yesterday shows that two thirds of Americans are dissatisfied with journalism. Forty-eight percent of Americans said they get their news and information from the Internet. Last year that number was only forty percent. ...

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