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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Media

How NPR pronounced Gabrielle Giffords dead

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 11, 2011, 1:52 PM Jan 11, 2011
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NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard has, apparently, spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how NPR allowed a false report onto the air that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died.

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Juan Williams proving NPR’s point

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 7, 2011, 10:26 AM Jan 7, 2011
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NPR as a news organization was open to Juan Williams’ point of view in covering the story. Williams wasn’t. That’s on him.

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The other Juan Williams shoe drops on NPR executive

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 6, 2011, 1:04 PM Jan 6, 2011
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The fallout over the firing of a former NPR commentator claims the career of a news executive.

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The Schorr files

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 23, 2010, 1:32 PM Dec 23, 2010
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Even to this day, the thought that a president could put the FBI on the trail of a journalist because he didn’t like the reporting sends shivers up the spines of rational people.

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The mother of online news

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 21, 2010, 2:34 PM Dec 21, 2010
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MJ Bear was one of the first people to recognize that journalism and the Web were made for each other, and that public media was uniquely qualified to prove it.

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No news is news

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 24, 2010, 2:02 PM Nov 24, 2010
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The hardest news story to cover is the one where there’s no news story to cover.

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Politics

Making news, making sausage

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 23, 2010, 2:12 PM Nov 23, 2010
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This video, released by Columbia Journalism Review earlier month, is a perfect example of how the political news you hear on your radio this afternoon gets made.

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This or That

Policy and a Pint: The Line Between News and Opinion

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 19, 2010, 2:56 PM Nov 19, 2010
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Details have been announced for next month’s session on the line between opinion and news.

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What do cabbies know?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 19, 2010, 10:25 AM Nov 19, 2010
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Roger Ebert’s ode to NPR.

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Politicians and public broadcasting

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 18, 2010, 2:26 PM Nov 18, 2010
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How deeply involved in radio and TV station programming should politicians be?

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In search of real news

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 16, 2010, 4:37 PM Nov 16, 2010
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Iconic newsman Ted Koppel laments the death of ‘real news.’ Not everyone agrees.

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In the Internet age, it’s impossible to censor for long

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 15, 2010, 2:37 PM Nov 15, 2010
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Officials at Benilde-St. Margaret, a Catholic school in St. Louis Park, have removed two articles from the school newspaper’s Web site critical of the Archdiocese’s DVD mailing against same-sex marriage.

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NPR to review Williams firing

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 15, 2010, 10:46 AM Nov 15, 2010
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But NPR’s ombudsman isn’t happy with the notion that some of the resulting report won’t be made public.

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Polling problems

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 11, 2010, 10:28 AM Nov 11, 2010
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MPR reconsiders the methodology behind an apparently inaccurate election poll.

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Blogger returns to print, a wiser reporter

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2010, 10:15 AM Nov 8, 2010
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Marc Ambinder, of The Atlantic, has decided to give up the world of blogging and head back to print journalism, but not before unleashing a scorched-earth treatise on his soon-to-be-former medium.

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