Mr. Montgomery notes that NPR's ombudsman has blasted Laura Sullivan's controversial October 2011 investigation of South Dakota's treatment of Native American foster children. In a lengthy indictment, Edward Schumacher-Matos identifies five major violations of NPR's code of journalistic ethics: 1.…
Posts tagged as “journalism”
I blipped Senator Lindsey Graham's doubt about the First Amendment rights of bloggers yesterday. Ken Santema gives Graham's Constitutional nincompoopery much fuller treatment in this post on bloggers, journalists, and freedom of the press. This discussion happens in the context…
There I am in the paper again, acting like I know stuff. Gale Pifer writes a hefty feature for the Madison Daily Leader on technology's impact on the news business. Publisher Jon Hunter lets him print some of my observations…
Senate Bill 119 is an example of a bill we shouldn't need. Various schools around the state have attempted to claim their sports events as some sort of private property to which they can sell exclusive broadcast rights to favored…
To understand what matters to folks reading the paper out here in the Northern Paha Sapa, check out the front pages of Wednesday's and Friday's Black Hills Pioneer: Real estate and aggressive young women in spandex, or America re-electing Barack…
Pat Powers and I share distaste for the Rapid City Journal's recent and numerous bad editorial decisions. So does Occupy Rapid City: A protest of Rapid City Journal's policy decisions is being organized for Saturday, October 13, 2012. The protest…
Time to raise your game, Democrats! Golly, all I said was that Congressman Paul Ryan tangled himself and GOP thinking on personal responsibility in a contradiction last night. The Washington Post's Jonathan Bernstein says I should have just called Ryan…
I knew I should have gone to the Republican convention in Sioux Falls this weekend. I could have gotten myself a "Trouble Maker" badge like the ones the SDGOP handed out to their reporter guests David Montgomery and Chet Brokaw.…