Indiana Supreme Court ruling getting little coverage from Indiana press
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that unlawful entry by police into a person’s home is fine. Not only……
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Protess and Northwestern keep battling
In 2009, when a prosecutor went to court to force David Protess to release information compiled by journalism students working on his famous Innocence Project, Northwestern University and the Medill School of Journalism came to the defense of the popular, pugnacious professor. After all, Protess had made the school famous for having helped free 12 men who had been wrongfully convicted, including five from death row.
Journalists struggling to find The Truth
The following is the complete speech by Linda Greenhouse, presented at the James Millstone Memorial Lecture in St. Louis on……
Slanting a story: The basics
So how exactly does one slant a story to skew the facts one way while acting as a legitimate columnist? The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund provides a good example and we’ll go through parts of this column to give an example of how you can tell one side of a story and make it seem like you are trying to be fair.
In all fairness, you can find similar stories while reading liberal columnists about the same story.
Emanuel’s battle-of-the-ballot trumps all issues in Chicago mayoral race
Just when it looked like the Chicago news media were fixing to focus on the issues – wham! – the Illinois Appellate Court tossed the frontrunner in Chicago’s mayoral race off the Feb. 22 primary ballot. True, that appellate decision only lasted for three days—on Jan. 27 the state Supreme Court restored Rahm Emanuel to the ballot. But the off-again, on-again battle of the ballot has made it hard for everyone—press and public—to re-focus on the stuff that really matters.