There’s a curious backlash against AJ Clemente today and not because he said you-know-what and then you-know-what on the air at a Bismarck, North Dakota TV station over the weekend, shortly before getting fired.
Today’s flurry of journalists debating each other over whether an arrest has been made in the Boston bombing is certainly interesting, given that it’s being waged on Twitter.
Language matters; nobody argues with that. But some words are automatic e-mail generators when they appear in news stories. The term ‘illegal immigrants’ is one.
The New York Times’ public editor has now checked in the continuing controversy over the obituary for rocket scientist Yvonne Brill, which stressed both her homemaking skills and her rocket propulsion expertise.
Apparently a lot of people think so. There were enough complaints to the Washington-based network this week that NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos responded to them this afternoon.
This is — or was — a big anniversary in the history of political journalism. It was 100 years ago today that the first presidential news conference was held.
It’s certainly unusual that the CEO’s blog is able to provide such a scathing rebuttal to the review. It’s even more unusual to have a journalism ethics debate break out in the usually dull auto section.