Monthly Archives: April 2012

Moving on

Posted on April 29, 2012 by jerrylanson

Dear friends, Though I’ll keep this address for the occasional family piece or travel piece, I’ve moved most of my blogging to the Huffington Post. From there, I’ll push it out to those who are Facebook friends or follow me … Continue reading →

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Is it time to consider new standards for news?

Posted on April 20, 2012 by jerrylanson

Investigate. Verify. Publish. Journalism used to seem so much simpler. As a graduate student at the University of Missouri in the mid-1970s, I memorized the somewhat lofty language of the Hutchins Commission, which in 1947 urged American journalists to “provide a … Continue reading →

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Media need to establish clear ethics codes on using, posting tweets

Posted on April 11, 2012 by jerrylanson

Don’t retweet this yet. Don’t post it on your news site. Not until you check to see if I am who I claim to be. That I’m a professor and not a charlatan. That my links are real. That I didn’t make up this … Continue reading →

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Can the Red scares of the ’50s mount a comeback?

Posted on April 11, 2012 by jerrylanson

Nothing in politics should surprise me anymore.  This, after all, is a country in which, polls suggest, millions of Americans still believe our president was born in another country and practices the Muslim faith. That said, I was nonetheless surprised … Continue reading →

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In Trayvon Martin case, news media need to examine their own role

Posted on April 3, 2012 by jerrylanson

Last spring, the Association of News Editors (ASNE) announced that the percentage of minority news employees at American newspapers and news websites had declined for the third consecutive year, even as the overall percentage of non-white Americans continued to rise rapidly. It … Continue reading →

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