Police misconduct records secret, hard to access
Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states — 32 of them including……
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Journalism’s infatuation with Glenn Greenwald
BY WILLIAM H. FREIVOGEL / The journalism world’s embrace of Glenn Greenwald and his advocacy reporting is now complete with the award of the Pulitzer Prize to the Guardian for Greenwald’s disclosure of Edward Snowden’s NSA secrets. As with many youthful infatuations, the journalism world has rushed headlong into this relationship without listening to the alarms that surely went off in the heads of veteran journalists.
Election night viewing, GJR-style
True confession: Gateway Journalism Review’s staff is made up of political junkies with long traditions of monitoring election-evening results. Our own political media monitoring likely mirrors that of much of the American population. So, at the risk of being too introspective, here is how GJR staffers spent Tuesday evening.
AP headline misleads readers about threat to Kansas power plant
While reading news from my home state of Kansas Tuesday morning (Aug. 28), a headline caught my eye on the Topeka Capital-Journal Web site: Drought raises concern at Wolf Creek nuclear plant: Cooling waters at John Redmond reservoir are dwindling. The article, which had been posted just an hour prior, was a five-paragraph AP story about concerns over the low water levels and the impact on the nuclear power plant.
Coverage of Armstrong lets audience decide
Sports media love building up their heroes. They love tearing them down too.
It’s all part of the cycle. That makes the tale of the latest cyclist to go through the cycle so interesting.