Media dissect Akin’s controversial remarks
Did members of the national media do their due diligence with the Todd Akin story?
Category: Media
GJR fall issue preview
This week’s Gateway Journalism Review eNewsletter provides a sneak peek into the upcoming fall issue. The issue focuses on the 2012 elections, the condition of editorial staffs at Midwest newspapers and media law topics, including the provocative question of who owns Marilyn Monroe? The answer, says St. Louis attorney Mark Sableman, is all of us.
St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis Beacon announce intent to explore journalism alliance
St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon announced today their intention to explore forming an alliance to better serve the community through journalism.
And now for something completely different: Times-Picayune forges transition path
In May the owners of the award-winning New Orleans Times-Picayune announced they were redefining the way newspapers transitioned into the next life. Rather than die a slow and (to the Newhouse family) costly death, the T-P — which actually still made money as a newspaper — would instead commit print suicide by putting a newspaper in subscribers’ mailboxes just three days a week.
ABC News wonders ‘where’s the beef’ in recent lawsuit
Earlier this year, ABC News aired a news segment exposing the manner in which Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) is produced by Beef Products Inc. The story, which was designed to educate consumers about the ammonia gas treatment LFTB receives as part of the production process, questioned the safety of the meat product. (Editor’s note: This is part three of a four-part series on the defamation lawsuit filed by Beef Products Inc. against ABC News. It looks at how media are covering the story.)