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Jul 23, 2010	U.S. Stalls in Push to Limit Food Ads Aimed at Children QUOTE: A report to Congress from several federal agencies — expected to include strict nutritional definitions for the sorts of foods that could be advertised to children — is overdue, and officials say it could be months before it is ready.	New York Times
Jul 23, 2010	Dengue Fever? What About It, Key West Says QUOTE: News of the disease has apparently unsettled a few potential visitors. But tourism officials and business owners in Key West are even more unsettled, by the way the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has publicized the cases.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed QUOTE: The government has conceded that Mao committed “errors,” but his reputation in China is still officially sacred. Wary of challenges to the man whose body lies on display in Tiananmen Square, publishers of writings about the era submit to a three-tier censorship process: at the government’s General Administration of Press and Publication, the Party History Research Office and the Party Literature Research Office, according to Ding Dong, a historian.	New York Times
Jul 22, 2010	Indonesia Moves to Block Pornographic Web Sites QUOTE: Indonesia is taking steps to block pornographic Web sites before the start of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the country’s information minister said Thursday, defying local criticism that the plan amounted to censorship and was unworkable.	New York Times
Mar 02, 2010	Abuse Case Rouses India’s Middle Class QUOTE: Girls are molested all the time in India; powerful officials often abuse their office to avoid criminal prosecution; sclerotic courts are painfully slow and often corrupt. But the case is emblematic of the way India’s growing middle class, egged on by a lively news media hungry for sensational stories, is increasingly unwilling to accept these seemingly immutable truths...	New York Times
Jul 21, 2008	Protest Blog Aims at Tribune Boss (Media Talk) QUOTE: At the Tribune Company, the grumblers have found an outlet in a blog, Tell Zell, that lets them rip into Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate mogul who took Tribune private last year for $8.2 billion. The blog, set up in May, is mainly an encyclopedia of gripes about cutbacks at The Los Angeles Times, though other Tribune papers, like The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel and The Baltimore Sun, get their turns. One scoop last week was an unconfirmed list of about 100 people leaving The Times, either through buyouts or layoffs.	New York Times
Jul 15, 2008	Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke QUOTE: One issue that clearly has some impact on writing jokes about Mr. Obama is a consistency among the big late-night shows. Not only are all the hosts white, the vast majority of their audiences are white. “I think white audiences get a little self-conscious if race comes up,” Mr. Sweeney of Mr. O’Brien’s show said. Things might be somewhat different if even one late-night host was black. Black comics are not having any trouble joking about Mr. Obama, said David Alan Grier, a comedian who, starting in October, will have a satirical news magazine show on Comedy Central, “Chocolate News.”	New York Times
Jun 27, 2008	CBS to Appeal Military Court Ruling on Haditha Interview QUOTE: The network is seeking to prevent the government from reviewing the unbroadcast parts of an interview with an officer who is being prosecuted over the incident. Last Friday, the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the government should be allowed to view the interview with Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, who faces charges including voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Iraqi civilians at Haditha in November 2005.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2008	NBC Settles With Family That Blamed a TV Investigation for a Man’s Suicide QUOTE: The lawsuit spotlighted the techniques used by the hidden-camera program to attract men online by having someone pose as an under-age girl in a chat room, then luring them to a house where they were confronted by a camera crew and host. While “To Catch a Predator” drew high ratings for NBC, ethical questions were raised over the program’s all-access arrangements with the local police and an online watchdog group.	New York Times
Jun 24, 2008	Football Talk Soon Turns to Race on Imus’s Show QUOTE: The radio host Don Imus, fired by CBS last year for referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” waded into racially treacherous waters again on his new radio program Monday morning, in a brief exchange about a suspended professional football player, Adam Jones.	New York Times
Jun 24, 2008	Imus Explains Racial Comments (The Lede) QUOTE: So what is at work here, folks? Have Americans all lost the ability to detect sarcasm (the subject of this excellent science story)? Is Don Imus guilty of racism? Was this episode the calculated controversy-stirring of a veteran shock jock, meant to split the debate in two? Or is his on-air transformation complete, from a voice that was outrageously racially insensitive to one that is quite sensitive indeed?	New York Times
Jun 23, 2008	Study Finds Imbalance on 3 Newspapers’ Op-Ed Pages (Media Talk) QUOTE: In the great marketplace of ideas, the opinion pages of major newspapers offer nonjournalists — mainly academics — a rare chance to reach a big audience and influence public policy. So which college professors win the competition for that limited, coveted space? Overwhelmingly, they agree with the editorial page, and they are men, according to researchers at Rutgers University. Unfortunately, those findings do not suggest the kind of forum for diverse views that newspapers say their opinion pages should be.	New York Times
May 05, 2008	How Much for Those Baby Photos? QUOTE: Not long ago, when a magazine paid a celebrity more than a person might earn in a lifetime in return for a set of pictures, media critics questioned the ethics of both the publication and the star.	New York Times
Apr 17, 2008	New Freedom, and Peril, in Online Criticism of China QUOTE: In the wake of the violence that has rocked Tibet and the protests over the Olympic torch relay, online bulletin boards in China have erupted with virulent comments rooted in nationalist sentiments. On some sites, emotional Chinese have exchanged personal information about critics and hunted them down. Such situations have become so common that some users refer to the sites as "human flesh search engines."	Washington Post
Mar 24, 2008	E-Commerce Report: A New Tool From Google Alarms Sites QUOTE: The problem, for some in the industry, is that when someone enters a term into that secondary search box, Google will display ads for competing sites, thereby profiting from ads it sells against the brand. The feature also keeps users searching on Google pages and not pages of the destination Web site...While the service could help increase traffic, some users could be siphoned away as Google uses the prominence of the brands to sell ads, typically to competing companies.	New York Times
Mar 18, 2008	A New Tool in the Box: Social Networks QUOTE: Journalists would be missing out if they didn't use these communities to find information or leads to sources. However, there are a few steps between finding a quote on someone's wall and publishing that quote in a story.	Poynter Online
Mar 17, 2008	Media Talk: If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Post ... QUOTE: Some critics also believe [Facebook's "Honesty Box" appliation] has become another weapon in the cyberbully’s arsenal. There have been reports at a high school in Palo Alto, Calif., of Honesty Box’s being used to slur male students because of their sexuality or to spread rumors about a female student.	New York Times
Feb 18, 2008	College Paper Vows to Fight a Takeover by Gannett QUOTE: ...Gannett and The [Fort Collins] Coloradoan have become targets for harsh criticism from college newsrooms and journalism departments across the country, who portray Gannett as a “dark lord” that wants to rein in student press freedom.	New York Times
Feb 16, 2008	Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Hounded by the Media QUOTE: Men [in the media] who fall from grace are treated with gravity and distance, while women in similar circumstances are objects of derision, titillation and black comedy. Some celebrities and their handlers are now saying straight out that the news media have a double standard.	New York Times
Feb 10, 2008	Was a Museum Director Treated Fairly? QUOTE: ...[a] story about more than $250,000 spent on travel over the last four years [by the] founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian drew angry responses from [the director], his friends and museum supporters, who charged that the coverage was unfair and ignored his achievements.	Washington Post
Feb 04, 2008	Tuesday's Problem: Should Journalists Declare Party Allegiance? QUOTE: Journalists everywhere get uncomfortable when it feels like their right to vote clashes with newsroom policies...[Many editors share the concern that] a record of the political affiliations will reinforce the perception that newsrooms are biased. It's a legitimate worry, given the slipping credibility of professional journalists.	Poynter Online
Jan 29, 2008	Advocacy groups keep advertisers on their toes QUOTE: As if airing a superexpensive Super Bowl spot isn't fraught with enough risks, marketers face a new hazard that gained momentum last year: having a message attacked — or even hijacked — by an advocacy group.	USA TODAY
Nov 27, 2007	Storming the News Gatekeepers: On the Internet, Citizen Journalists Raise Their Voices QUOTE: Citizen journalism is bringing folks, young and old, into the public square, giving voice to those who, in the pre-Internet era, may have felt voiceless. But some challenge the value of all this citizen involvement. Questions pop up. Is it really "journalism"? Are "they" really "journalists"? What's the difference between citizen journalists and bloggers who write about politics?	Washington Post
Nov 14, 2007	Few Friends for Proposal on Media QUOTE: The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday announced the details of his plan to relax the longstanding rule that had prevented a company from owning both a newspaper and a radio or television station in the same city.	New York Times
Nov 12, 2007	European Tabloids Still Agog Months After Child Vanishes QUOTE: The coverage has increased circulation at newspapers and kept a staff of public relations professionals, working on behalf of the McCanns, busy denying the latest leaks against them. British papers have benefited from a seemingly endless appetite for articles about the McCanns, fueling online and dinner-party debates about everything from the reliability of DNA evidence to the differences between British and Portuguese child care practices.	New York Times
Oct 22, 2007	The Curse of Chief Wahoo: Enabling Racist Imagery QUOTE: How do we make sense of a community that embraces its team even though a sign of that enthusiasm is deemed offensive? Are [certain sports teams] fans enablers of a corporate marketing tradition that ignores certain racial sensibilities in order to grow a brand and build profits?	Poynter Online
Oct 02, 2007	News media sue to open probe into Utah mine disaster QUOTE: A coalition of news media organizations has filed suit in an effort to get the government investigation into the Crandall Canyon mine accident opened to the public.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Jul 05, 2007	The Press Faces Climate of Fear in Gaza QUOTE: Freedom of the press is always a tricky proposition in the Middle East; here, as elsewhere, it belongs only to those who own one…	MSNBC
Jul 02, 2007	Toys for Toddlers From PG-13 Movie QUOTE: Last week, [the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood] complained to the United States Federal Trade Commission that DreamWorks and Hasbro were going after preschoolers with their “widespread and irresponsible” marketing of the coming [Transformers] movie.	New York Times
Jun 30, 2007	Undercover, under fire: The Washington press corps is too busy cozying up to the people it covers to get at the truth. QUOTE: In exchange for fees of up to $1.5 million a year, [lobbyists I met at Cassidy & Associates and APCO] offered to send congressional delegations to Turkmenistan and write and plant opinion pieces in newspapers under the names of academics and think-tank experts they would recruit .... Now, in a fabulous bit of irony, my article about the unethical behavior of lobbying firms has become, for some in the media, a story about my ethics in reporting the story.	Los Angeles Times
Jun 27, 2007	Outcome of an Ad Contest Starts an Uproar on YouTube QUOTE: “It just looks like, wow, they rigged the contest,” said Debbie Lusignan, 35, of Adams, Mass...[but] Ron Klineschmidt, the winner of the contest...said they were being sore losers.	New York Times
Jun 23, 2007	Everyone we fight in Iraq is now "al-Qaida" QUOTE: That the Bush administration, and specifically its military commanders, decided to begin using the term "Al Qaeda" to designate "anyone and everyeone we fight against or kill in Iraq" is obvious. But what is even more notable is that the establishment press has followed right along, just as enthusiastically.	Salon
Jun 19, 2007	Attack On Mothers QUOTE: Deliberately deceptive and fatally flawed studies [showing 'plausible deniability' of the link between the drug Thimerosal and autism] were authored by vaccine industry consultants and paid for by Thimerosal producers and published largely in compromised journals that neglected to disclose the myriad conflicts of their authors in violation of standard peer-review ethics .... The CDC and IOM base their defense of Thimerosal on these flimsy studies, their own formidable reputations, and their faith that journalists won’t take the time to critically read the science.	Huffington Post
May 31, 2007	Religious Right Gets More Than Its 15 Minutes QUOTE: Conservative religious figures are mentioned in the major U.S. news media as many as 2.8 times as often as progressive religious figures, says a new study released Tuesday in Washington. .... The report, released by Media Matters for America, a press watchdog group, challenges the presentation of religion in the major media as a politically divisive force.	Inter Press Service (IPS)
May 17, 2007	Dialogue or Diatribe: One Woman's Story QUOTE: Some journalists fear mean-spirited online mobs may hinder their ability to tell intimate stories.	Poynter Online
May 14, 2007	A Brave Woman Scorned: The Campaign Against Shaha Riza is the Nastiest Character Assassination I Have Ever Seen QUOTE: I sat and thought for quite a while today and decided that this is the nastiest and dirtiest and cheapest campaign of character assassination I have ever seen.	Slate
May 14, 2007	Is It the Woman Thing, or Is It Katie Couric? QUOTE: Eight months into Katie Couric’s job as the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own, her “CBS Evening News”.... had its worst performance [ever]. Ms. Couric’s defenders ask whether a man taking the CBS job would have had his looks, hair, and clothes commented on in the same way as Ms. Couric’s. Or if a single male anchor’s social life would be almost daily fodder for the tabloids.	New York Times
May 07, 2007	Afghan News Media Find Foes on All Sides: Violence, Politics, Imperil Press Freedom QUOTE: In recent months, the Afghan press...has come under attack from all quarters of this conflicted and confused society. The greatest physical danger comes from the insurgents, who regularly attempt to use local journalists as conduits for their declarations but also target them for kidnappings and bombings.	Washington Post
May 07, 2007	Fraudulent 'Fairness': Conservatives dominate talk radio—but no more thoroughly than liberals dominate Hollywood, academia and much of the mainstream media. QUOTE: By trying to again empower the government to regulate broadcasting, illiberals reveal their lack of confidence in their ability to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and their disdain for consumer sovereignty—and hence for the public.	Newsweek
Apr 26, 2007	The FCC wants to kill your TV: In the name of saving your children. QUOTE: One person's example of gratuitous media violence is another person's idea of a film classic, a fantastic war documentary, or a brilliant newscast from an urban riot. But far from being daunted by the perpetual needlework of OK'ing one kind of violence because it's artistic, historical, or newsworthy but nixing another as too wanton, the FCC appears to relish the idea of refereeing all television programming everywhere.	Slate
Apr 17, 2007	Culture of Blame: Ask the Right Questions of the Right People QUOTE: Questions are powerful tools. But they have to be applied with precision and accuracy. Asked at the wrong time, of the wrong person, a question can become a weapon that causes great harm without achieving any good.	Poynter Online
Apr 16, 2007	Now on YouTube: The Latest News From Al Jazeera, in English QUOTE: “The idea that people can click and watch English language programming on Al Jazeera is important because it’s an alternative point of view,” said John Stauber, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, a watchdog organization. He said he saw the arrangement as an encouraging sign about the diversity of news coverage that could increasingly find a home online.	New York Times
Apr 16, 2007	Taking Risks with Advertisers: A Philly Inquirer business column and a bank have a new arrangement. The Poynter ethics faculty weighs in. QUOTE: ...from The Philadelphia Inquirer: a new column produced by the paper's writers and editors that will run in a green-colored box with a Citizens Bank label. Green, like Citizens Bank's green. First of all, it looks as though we're talking about two different things the Inquirer is doing -- front-page advertising and sponsorship of a specific column. What's the difference?	Poynter Online
Apr 15, 2007	Media Frenzy: A Soft Sell With Cold, Hard Cash in Mind QUOTE: Can material spawned in such a way be anywhere near as effective as traditional advertising, or as good as conventional programming that is born by creative inspiration rather than to help sell something? After all, Samuel Goldwyn once observed (in a slightly different context): “Pictures are for entertainment. Messages should be delivered by Western Union.”	New York Times
Apr 12, 2007	The Deeper Fakery of Couric's Plagiarism: Why original thought is harder to steal. QUOTE: The network paid [McNamara] to write original essays for Katie Couric to read in video and audio clips made available on its Web site and to CBS-owned radio stations. McNamara deceived CBS by plagiarizing the Journal. But CBS News wronged visitors to its Web site by inviting them to think that the opinions Couric expressed in these commentaries were her own.	Slate
Apr 11, 2007	Calls mount for firing of shock jock Don Imus: The radio host, who made a racist remark about a women's basketball team, has been suspended for two weeks. QUOTE: After calling the NCAA finalists of the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos" on his radio show last week, many people believed Imus has crossed the line one too many times. After repeated apologies and appeals for forgiveness and a two-week suspension by CBS radio and MSNBC, the protests and demands that Imus be fired continue.	Christian Science Monitor
Apr 11, 2007	Winners and Losers in the Duke Lacrosse Story QUOTE: Our insistence upon ignoring most stories of sexual assault and going beyond the boundaries of responsible journalism with high-profile cases dooms us to forever fail in our primary mission as journalists: To tell the truth.	Poynter Online
Apr 05, 2007	Why the Hype Just Keeps on Coming: Increased scrutiny of advertisers' claims for their products is unlikely to do much to temper their overheated pitches QUOTE: Why so much product hype? Companies typically face scant public censure when it comes to outrageous product claims. Even if a government agency, plaintiff, or activist cries foul, there's often little penalty to be paid. The few weeks or months that most companies' ad campaigns run are usually over before anyone gets exercised over their claims. By then the companies have already achieved their objective of goosing sales and the public is often unaware of any court rulings or government orders against the ads.	BusinessWeek
Apr 02, 2007	A Misfired Memo Shows Close Tabs on Reporter QUOTE: ...during the course of reporting on a video blogging initiative at Microsoft called Channel 9, Fred Vogelstein inadvertently received a 13-page, 5,500-word internal memo from Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a firm that represents Microsoft. The document, which was meant to prepare Microsoft executives for interviews, contained frank details, including some less-than-flattering observations...scripted responses to questions and a strong-arm list of the points the agency expected to see in the piece.	New York Times
Mar 30, 2007	Advertising: Uncle Ben, Board Chairman QUOTE: In addition to Uncle Ben, there was Aunt Jemima, who sold pancake mix in ads that sometimes had her exclaiming, “Tempt yo’ appetite;”...the Frito Bandito, who spoke in an exaggerated Mexican accent; and characters selling powdered drink mixes for Pillsbury under names like Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry — the latter baring buck teeth...As a result most of those polarizing ad characters were banished when marketers — becoming more sensitive to the changing attitudes of consumers — realized they were no longer appropriate. A handful like Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima and the Cream of Wheat chef were redesigned and kept on, but in the unusual status of silent spokescharacters, removed from ads and reduced to staring mutely from packages.	New York Times

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