Editor’s note: This story appeared in the spring 2014 print issue of Gateway Journalism Review. In late February, NBC’s “Today” show hired two teenage-looking actors (both aged 21 or older) and sent them to a liquor store in New Jersey. The actors loitered outside, asking customers entering the store to buy beer for them. All male customers refused, but several … [Read more...] about TV station’s school ‘test’ story was worth doing, despite lockdown
Redefining a ‘Free’ Press: Watching the Watchdogs
Smith Square in London is a collection of Georgian buildings sheltering government ministries, European Commission offices – and, because the square is around the corner from Parliament, countless lobbyists. Until recently, both the Conservative and Labour party headquarters were in Smith Square. William Thomas Stead, the father of British tabloid journalism, lived there until … [Read more...] about Redefining a ‘Free’ Press: Watching the Watchdogs
