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Ethical Martini @ Wordpress

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Ethical Martini is half-way between blogspot and wordpress, can't decide on a home, so being a bit itinerant

• Added on: Mar 21st, 2008
• Country: New Zealand
• Language: English

• Author: Martin Hirst
• Listed in: Journalists Cocktails and Spirits
• Tags: politics news journalism ethics martini dialectic

Recent Posts

• Through a (Media) Lens darkly – Newspeak review part 2

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 19:53 in journalism, freedom of speech, democracy, journalism ethics, journalism education, heroes of journalism, newspeak in the 21st century

  “Not only is journalistic ‘objectivity’ impossible, the attempt to achieve it is morally abhorrent.” Newspeak in the 21st Century, p.239. This deserves some attention and discussion, it’s tempting to just go “Yep...

• Another semi-canibalistic hoax? Lima fat gangs

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 22:12 in Perú, organ harvesting, urban myth, urban myths, chuckle piece, fat criminals, hoax story, stenographic reporting

  I kid you not, this story appeared this week on the CBS news website. Perhaps they’ve got a nine-year-old kid sitting in the chief reporter’s chair. Anyway, as of today they had not taken this story down. LIMA, Peru, Nov. 21, 2009 A Peruv...

• Graduates take a social media tour – the immediate future of journalism?

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 15:18 in journalism in the age of youtube, journalism in the digital age, andrew hughes, social media and journalism, aut journalism, olivia wix

  Two graduating students from AUT’s journalism programme are traveling up and down (mostly up) New Zealand filing stories, video, photos and blogs for the New Zealand Herald website. Andrew Hughes and Olivia Wix on tour Olivia Wix and Andrew Hug...

• Newspeak in the 21st century – Media Lens and angry analysis

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 21:40 in iraq, iran, george orwell, liberal bias, nineteen eighty-four, journalism of engagement, marxism and journalism, media lens, newspeak in the 21st century

  I’m currently reading a great book on the British media by the two guys behind Media Lens, David Edwards and David Cromwell. Newspeak in the 21st Century is an angry, but analytical, and very damning report about the state of the British media...

• Philosophers and journalists – unlikely bedfellows? Bourdieu in the house!

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 13:46 in fourth estate, pierre bourdieu, journalism training, journalism ethics, journalism education, journalism scholarship, doing journalism, journalism in the digital age, heroes of journalism, political economy of news, journalism studies, journalism of engagement

  [Thanks Jess for the link] An interesting, if a little obtuse piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education this week about the fractious relationship between philosophy and journalism. I was struck most immediately by this paragraph, which IMHO sums up...

• Picking on Robert Capa – why now George?

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 22:17 in photojournalism, robert capa, falling soldier, iconic photographs, jose manuel susperregui, this is war!

  Conservative US columnist George  F Will is syndicated from the Washington Post to lots of other newspapers and online portals. In a column this week George (belatedly) stumbles upon the news that a Spanish historian has demonstrated that Robert Cap...

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