National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard is criticizing NPR’s coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death. Too much coverage overall, she says, and too little Chappaquiddick.
In a column titled “Too Much Kennedy,” Shepard writes:
There was no doubt that Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts…
President Barack Obama has used the term “ginned up” a couple times in recent weeks — which is a couple times more than most people. The presidential usage prompted the Columbia Journalism Review’s Merrill Perlman to investigate the phrase.
Three days after the Michael Jackson memorial service, MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman asks: “So, how did the media do in covering Michael Jackson’s death?”
His bottom line answer: He assigns the media overall a grade of C+ in covering his death and the…
The Wall Street Journal has a thought-provoking opinion piece on what the author calls the nation’s “Peeping Tom pandemic.” It cites the publication of Gov. Mark Sanford’s emails to his mistress, ambulance photos of Michael Jackson and home sale prices…
A new poll out from the Pew Center says two-thirds of those surveyed thought there was too much coverage of Michael Jackson’s death. The posting includes a list of the people whose deaths were closely watched by the public. Princess Diana…
Post-Dispatch
Los Angeles Times
Was Michael Jackson’s death worth front-page display in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? For editors yesterday, the answer was clearly yes.
But how much display was appropriate? News of his death arrived late afternoon. (Bob Rose will be posting a…
The Los Angeles Times this morning had a story about how celeb-gossip site TMZ scooped other media on reporting Michael Jackson’s death.
Jackson’s time of death was 4:26 p.m. St. Louis time. At 4:44 p.m., TMZ reported that Jackson was dead. The…
