Tag Archives: investigative reporting

Bill Moyers on why facts matter

By Mark | February 14, 2011

Bill Moyers, speaking a few weeks ago before a group of broadcasters on the importance of investigative journalism, had the following to say about the Freedom of Information Act and Wikileaks. The entire speech is worth a read, but I found this section to be of particular interest. …Here’s a sidebar: I remember vividly the […]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1966, democracy protests, Egypt, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Iran, John Moss, journalism, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reality deficient, Reza Alsan, Tunisia, weapons of mass destruction, Wikileaks | 7 Comments

The state of journalism today

By Mark | March 16, 2010

The folks at the nonpartisan Pew Research Center just issued a new report entitled, State of the News Media 2010, and, as you might guess, based on the fact that I’m writing about it here, it doesn’t paint a very rosy picture… Here’s a clip: …The numbers for 2009 reveal just how urgent these questions […]

Posted in Media | Also tagged 2010, advertising, AnnArbor.com, Detroit News, new revenue models, news media, Pew Research Center, Ponzi, Ponzi hydra, Ponzi scheme, Poynter Institute, ratings, reporting, State of the News Media, the future of journalism, the press, the sad state of journalism | 14 Comments

The untimely (or timely) death of the Ann Arbor News

By Mark | March 23, 2009

You wouldn’t know it if you read the front page of today’s Ann Arbor News, but the 174 year old paper is going out of business. The publisher of the paper, Laurel Champion, informed employees this morning that that local institution would cease publication come July. As I understand it, the paper will stop publishing, […]