Bob CollinsTestimony in the trial of Brian Fitch, the man accused of killing a Mendota Heights police officer last summer, hadn’t even started yet and already there’s a question of journalistic ethics.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Media
The New York Times’ top editor had a groundbreaking acknowledgement last week when his newspaper was criticized for not publishing cartoons from Charlie Hebdo after last week’s attacks in Paris.
Dean Baquet said, basically, there are other places to see the images; you don’t need the New York Times.
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Last week’s attacks in Paris have clearly sparked a discussion in newsrooms about the line between the freedom of journalists to say whatever they feel the need to say and the responsibility not to offend or harm, at least not unnecessarily.
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Kirby Delauter, the Maryland politician who became a national joke earlier this week when he insisted that a local newspaper not use his name without authorization, has more than redeemed himself. Read more →
A day after the killings of journalists — including many editorial cartoonists — in Paris, many newspapers in the rest of the world are casting off the conventions of the editorial page to speak out. Read more →
Terrorists killed a dozen people in an assault on free speech, but it took a newspaper in New York to deliver the final blow. Read more →
In Maryland, a City Council member in Frederick is threatening to sue the local newspaper for using his name in its stories. Read more →
Though it’s heresy for me to say, radio will probably never tie a community together the way it once did, which is why there probably won’t be any more “members of the family” like Joyce Lamont and broadcasters of her day. Read more →
If there was must-viewing in Minnesota over the weekend, Cathy Wurzer’s interview with Bruce Kramer on TPT’s Almanac was it. Read more →
Serial, the Public Radio version of ‘Who shot JR?’ (ask your parents), has concluded its first season without us knowing who killed a young high school woman. Read more →
You probably made more money in the stock market than Mo Islam did. Read more →
This is way better than dumping ice water on your head.
The Grand Forks Herald staff recently tried lutefisk the infamous Norwegian dish that makes any reasonable person wonder where Norwegieans went wrong, exactly. Read more →
NPR is warning its employees that they can’t participate in a national march against police violence in Washington this weekend. Read more →
By all accounts, Jerry Kill is far too nice of a guy to say what must be said to the dunderheads in Minnesota who last year declared someone with an illness can’t be a college football coach. Read more →
Pioneer Press reporter Mike Berardino felt compelled today to explain why he didn’t serve up softballs to Minnesota Twins outfielder Torii Hunter and Hunter’s news conference earlier this week.
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