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For all our infamous failings, journalists once had some toughness to them. We were supposed to be willing to go to jail for sources we might not even like, and fly off to war zones or disaster areas without question when editors asked. It was also once considered a virtue to flout the disapproval of colleagues to fight for stories we believed in... See more
Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi
Kelly McBride, “Jill Abramson Startup to Advance Writers up to $100k for Longform Work,” Poynter Media Wire, November 2, 2014, http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/278851/jill-abramson-startup-to-advance-writers-up-to-100k-for-longform-work/.
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
It is, in fact, objectivity’s self-appointed defenders themselves who have led its erosion. Rather than emphasize a fair reporting process , they focused obsessively on the appearanceand performanceof supposed personal objectivity, wielding the term to police personal expression—not journalistic work—in both public and private contexts. Their north... See more
A Test of the News
freedom
Johanna Bulaong • 3 cards
John Milton—later the author of Paradise Lost—published a pamphlet in which he argued against a law passed by Parliament requiring printers to secure licenses from the government for everything they printed. No book should be censored before publication, Milton argued (though it might be condemned after printing), because truth could only be
... See moreJill Lepore • These Truths
As I explain in the pages that follow, we come from a tradition of "free culture"—not "free" as in "free beer" (to borrow a phrase from the founder of the freesoftware movement[2] ), but "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise," "free will," and "free elections." A free culture supports and protects creators and... See more
Lawrence Lessig • Free Culture | LESSIG
Freedom
Amelia Savery • 1 card
The Uncensored Library – Reporters without borders
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IT News
Michael Iversen • 10 cards