Beth Knobel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279333
- eISBN:
- 9780823281404
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279333.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter presents the results of the study of three large national newspapers with high circulation and big reputations for excellence. They are the New York Times (NYT or Times), the Washington ...
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This chapter presents the results of the study of three large national newspapers with high circulation and big reputations for excellence. They are the New York Times (NYT or Times), the Washington Post (Post or WaPo), and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ or Journal). One might expect these high-achieving, well-funded news organizations to be the largest producers of watchdog journalism. This chapter considers that to be true, although not quite as much as one might think. Although the large papers were the highest producers of deep accountability reporting in the study group overall, they were surprisingly low producers during the early study years. And although their reputations were always high, a look back with hindsight shows that even the largest, strongest newspapers faced challenges in producing a steady stream of watchdog reporting during the time covered by this research.Less
This chapter presents the results of the study of three large national newspapers with high circulation and big reputations for excellence. They are the New York Times (NYT or Times), the Washington Post (Post or WaPo), and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ or Journal). One might expect these high-achieving, well-funded news organizations to be the largest producers of watchdog journalism. This chapter considers that to be true, although not quite as much as one might think. Although the large papers were the highest producers of deep accountability reporting in the study group overall, they were surprisingly low producers during the early study years. And although their reputations were always high, a look back with hindsight shows that even the largest, strongest newspapers faced challenges in producing a steady stream of watchdog reporting during the time covered by this research.
Reid Badger
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195337969
- eISBN:
- 9780199851553
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337969.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
The Europe family found a bustling city that was both quite different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, the one they had left “down home”. Washington had grown dramatically since the Civil War ...
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The Europe family found a bustling city that was both quite different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, the one they had left “down home”. Washington had grown dramatically since the Civil War in its public as well as private aspects. James, who was called “Jim”, attended the third grade at Lincoln Grammar School on Capital Hill. It was about this time that he first began to study the instrument that would be his first love—the violin—under Joseph Douglass. In addition to his musical aptitude, Jim Europe demonstrated a strong personality and a natural organizational ability. John Philip Sousa, who had been dubbed the “March King” for such compositions as “The Washington Post March” and “Semper Fidelis”, and the Marine Band itself had a long-standing relationship with the African-American community in Washington. With his outgoing personality and his musical interests, Jim Europe was quickly recruited into the high school cadets. A twenty-year-old violinist named Will Marion Cook undertook to provide Washington and its black community with an orchestra. Although Cook was eleven years older than Europe, the lives of the two Washingtonians would intersect later in significant ways.Less
The Europe family found a bustling city that was both quite different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, the one they had left “down home”. Washington had grown dramatically since the Civil War in its public as well as private aspects. James, who was called “Jim”, attended the third grade at Lincoln Grammar School on Capital Hill. It was about this time that he first began to study the instrument that would be his first love—the violin—under Joseph Douglass. In addition to his musical aptitude, Jim Europe demonstrated a strong personality and a natural organizational ability. John Philip Sousa, who had been dubbed the “March King” for such compositions as “The Washington Post March” and “Semper Fidelis”, and the Marine Band itself had a long-standing relationship with the African-American community in Washington. With his outgoing personality and his musical interests, Jim Europe was quickly recruited into the high school cadets. A twenty-year-old violinist named Will Marion Cook undertook to provide Washington and its black community with an orchestra. Although Cook was eleven years older than Europe, the lives of the two Washingtonians would intersect later in significant ways.
Matt Carlson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252035999
- eISBN:
- 9780252093180
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252035999.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter looks at how two newspapers used unnamed sources in reports leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. When Iraq's weapons of mass destruction failed to materialize, critics on ...
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This chapter looks at how two newspapers used unnamed sources in reports leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. When Iraq's weapons of mass destruction failed to materialize, critics on the left and from within journalism chastised the New York Times and Washington Post for overly credulous, unnamed source-laden investigative reporting appearing on their front pages in the buildup to the war. The newspapers responded by revisiting their unnamed sourcing practices, but not until more than a year after the invasion. These self-assessments generated attention around two problems negatively impacting prewar coverage: the calculated press management strategies of the Bush administration, and the willingness of the competing newspapers to reproduce official statements anonymously. The complex problems marking the journalist-unnamed source exchange come to light through these efforts to attach blame both to the sources and the journalists.Less
This chapter looks at how two newspapers used unnamed sources in reports leading up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. When Iraq's weapons of mass destruction failed to materialize, critics on the left and from within journalism chastised the New York Times and Washington Post for overly credulous, unnamed source-laden investigative reporting appearing on their front pages in the buildup to the war. The newspapers responded by revisiting their unnamed sourcing practices, but not until more than a year after the invasion. These self-assessments generated attention around two problems negatively impacting prewar coverage: the calculated press management strategies of the Bush administration, and the willingness of the competing newspapers to reproduce official statements anonymously. The complex problems marking the journalist-unnamed source exchange come to light through these efforts to attach blame both to the sources and the journalists.
Simeon Booker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037894
- eISBN:
- 9781617037900
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037894.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In this chapter, the author talks about his family background and professional life as a journalist. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, although he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. His father, Simeon S. ...
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In this chapter, the author talks about his family background and professional life as a journalist. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, although he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. His father, Simeon S. Booker, was General Secretary of the Colored Branch of the Baltimore YMCA while his mother, Reberta Waring Booker, belonged to a generation of nationally-known educators. His maternal grandfather, Dr. James Henry Nelson Waring, a medical doctor and a renowned educator, was involved in YMCA work during World War I. The author reflects on his time at Virginia Union University, his first experience in the South and his first adult view of real segregation; his successful application for the Nieman Fellowship; his stint at the Washington Post; and his joining the black-owned magazines Ebony and Jet.Less
In this chapter, the author talks about his family background and professional life as a journalist. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, although he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. His father, Simeon S. Booker, was General Secretary of the Colored Branch of the Baltimore YMCA while his mother, Reberta Waring Booker, belonged to a generation of nationally-known educators. His maternal grandfather, Dr. James Henry Nelson Waring, a medical doctor and a renowned educator, was involved in YMCA work during World War I. The author reflects on his time at Virginia Union University, his first experience in the South and his first adult view of real segregation; his successful application for the Nieman Fellowship; his stint at the Washington Post; and his joining the black-owned magazines Ebony and Jet.
Susan Markens
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520252035
- eISBN:
- 9780520940970
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520252035.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Surrogate motherhood can be viewed as a classic social problem in its life history. Newspaper stories about surrogate parenting appeared only alternatingly in the early 1980s. The combined coverage ...
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Surrogate motherhood can be viewed as a classic social problem in its life history. Newspaper stories about surrogate parenting appeared only alternatingly in the early 1980s. The combined coverage provided by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post totalled 15 articles in 1980, 19 in 1981, 8 in 1982, and 25 in 1983. National public opinions polls indicate the impact of the Baby M case in etching surrogacy indelibly onto the national consciousness. A Gallup poll conducted during the 1987 trial found that 93 percent of those surveyed had heard of the Baby M case; 79 percent of the respondents in a Roper poll claimed they had read or heard enough about the case to feel they knew what it was about. The rise and fall of surrogacy as a national social problem can be measured by more than the news coverage the issue received.Less
Surrogate motherhood can be viewed as a classic social problem in its life history. Newspaper stories about surrogate parenting appeared only alternatingly in the early 1980s. The combined coverage provided by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post totalled 15 articles in 1980, 19 in 1981, 8 in 1982, and 25 in 1983. National public opinions polls indicate the impact of the Baby M case in etching surrogacy indelibly onto the national consciousness. A Gallup poll conducted during the 1987 trial found that 93 percent of those surveyed had heard of the Baby M case; 79 percent of the respondents in a Roper poll claimed they had read or heard enough about the case to feel they knew what it was about. The rise and fall of surrogacy as a national social problem can be measured by more than the news coverage the issue received.
James Lawrence Powell
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231157193
- eISBN:
- 9780231527842
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231157193.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter argues that American media have been complicit in the two-decades-long success of the denial of global warming. That the media have failed is a fact established by scholarly research. In ...
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This chapter argues that American media have been complicit in the two-decades-long success of the denial of global warming. That the media have failed is a fact established by scholarly research. In 2004, researchers tested the premise that press coverage of global warming among national newspapers had misled the public. They concentrated on four leading national newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal—searching databases for the phrase “global warming” in news stories appearing between 1980 and 2002. They concluded that “adherence to the norm of balanced reporting leads to informationally biased coverage of global warming. This bias, hidden behind the veil of journalistic balance, creates both discursive and real political space for the U.S. government to shirk responsibility and delay action regarding global warming.” The remainder of the chapter discusses how prestige newspapers give space to global warming denial; and other fields of science that suffer from media anti-science bias disguised as balance.Less
This chapter argues that American media have been complicit in the two-decades-long success of the denial of global warming. That the media have failed is a fact established by scholarly research. In 2004, researchers tested the premise that press coverage of global warming among national newspapers had misled the public. They concentrated on four leading national newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal—searching databases for the phrase “global warming” in news stories appearing between 1980 and 2002. They concluded that “adherence to the norm of balanced reporting leads to informationally biased coverage of global warming. This bias, hidden behind the veil of journalistic balance, creates both discursive and real political space for the U.S. government to shirk responsibility and delay action regarding global warming.” The remainder of the chapter discusses how prestige newspapers give space to global warming denial; and other fields of science that suffer from media anti-science bias disguised as balance.
David M. Webber
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474423564
- eISBN:
- 9781474438384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
Chapter 4 focuses upon the institutional framework that Gordon Brown and his chief economic advisor, Ed Balls, put in place to make the Treasury the pilot agency of New Labour’s political economy. ...
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Chapter 4 focuses upon the institutional framework that Gordon Brown and his chief economic advisor, Ed Balls, put in place to make the Treasury the pilot agency of New Labour’s political economy. Insofar as the newly established Department for International Development (DFID) was concerned, this would ensure that it was the Chancellor, rather than the Secretary of State for International Development who would design New Labour’s international development policy. Yet the role that the Treasury played in ‘internationalising’ New Labour’s domestic political economy went beyond the conquest of other Whitehall departments. Brown took the macroeconomic blueprint – the ‘new economic architecture’ – that he had mapped out at home, to a number of key international financial actors abroad. This blueprint would create, in Brown’s mind, ‘a new Jerusalem’, a biblical phrase that the Chancellor used to describe the vision that he had of a world free from poverty, debt and disease. Embedding this vision into the orthodoxy of the ‘post-Washington Consensus’, Brown wanted to maintain not only a clear transmission of policy but also a distinct institutional ‘lock-in’, and a set of global governance arrangements that would provide the framework for the policies explored in the following three case study chapters.Less
Chapter 4 focuses upon the institutional framework that Gordon Brown and his chief economic advisor, Ed Balls, put in place to make the Treasury the pilot agency of New Labour’s political economy. Insofar as the newly established Department for International Development (DFID) was concerned, this would ensure that it was the Chancellor, rather than the Secretary of State for International Development who would design New Labour’s international development policy. Yet the role that the Treasury played in ‘internationalising’ New Labour’s domestic political economy went beyond the conquest of other Whitehall departments. Brown took the macroeconomic blueprint – the ‘new economic architecture’ – that he had mapped out at home, to a number of key international financial actors abroad. This blueprint would create, in Brown’s mind, ‘a new Jerusalem’, a biblical phrase that the Chancellor used to describe the vision that he had of a world free from poverty, debt and disease. Embedding this vision into the orthodoxy of the ‘post-Washington Consensus’, Brown wanted to maintain not only a clear transmission of policy but also a distinct institutional ‘lock-in’, and a set of global governance arrangements that would provide the framework for the policies explored in the following three case study chapters.
David M. Webber
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474423564
- eISBN:
- 9781474438384
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The first of these case study chapters in chapter 5 draws parallels between the economic framework designed by Treasury officials at home and ‘the new international economic architecture’ that Gordon ...
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The first of these case study chapters in chapter 5 draws parallels between the economic framework designed by Treasury officials at home and ‘the new international economic architecture’ that Gordon Brown was keen to pursue abroad. This would provide the basis for a new approach to debt relief to reform the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. The new Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative would be conditional upon recipient countries meeting their obligations towards this new economic architecture, designed by Brown and based upon the principles of the ‘post-Washington Consensus’. This approach however, ran counter to many within civil society who viewed the issue of debt relief in ‘moral’ rather than simply ‘economic’ terms. In meeting with these different faith groups, NGOs and other debt activists, Brown certainly appeared sympathetic to such claims but the biblical language of forgiveness, justice and redemption that he used in speaking to these audiences differed from when he spoke in altogether more punitive terms to the international financial institutions. Here Brown spoke of the need for greater stability, demanded that indebted countries recognise their financial obligations, and urged greater surveillance by the International Monetary Fund of these countries national accounts.Less
The first of these case study chapters in chapter 5 draws parallels between the economic framework designed by Treasury officials at home and ‘the new international economic architecture’ that Gordon Brown was keen to pursue abroad. This would provide the basis for a new approach to debt relief to reform the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative. The new Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative would be conditional upon recipient countries meeting their obligations towards this new economic architecture, designed by Brown and based upon the principles of the ‘post-Washington Consensus’. This approach however, ran counter to many within civil society who viewed the issue of debt relief in ‘moral’ rather than simply ‘economic’ terms. In meeting with these different faith groups, NGOs and other debt activists, Brown certainly appeared sympathetic to such claims but the biblical language of forgiveness, justice and redemption that he used in speaking to these audiences differed from when he spoke in altogether more punitive terms to the international financial institutions. Here Brown spoke of the need for greater stability, demanded that indebted countries recognise their financial obligations, and urged greater surveillance by the International Monetary Fund of these countries national accounts.
Mike Zwerin
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108064
- eISBN:
- 9780300127386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108064.003.0018
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter discusses how the author's freelance writing for the Herald Tribune was affected when the New York Times bought out its fifty percent partner the Washington Post. It explains that his ...
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This chapter discusses how the author's freelance writing for the Herald Tribune was affected when the New York Times bought out its fifty percent partner the Washington Post. It explains that his weekly column for twenty years was reduced to biweekly and his articles were being scrutinized for the “hook,” or their relevance to major contemporary events. The chapter discusses the author's interview with a Lebanese guitar player and Mustafa Zadeh, a jazz pianist from Azerbaijan.Less
This chapter discusses how the author's freelance writing for the Herald Tribune was affected when the New York Times bought out its fifty percent partner the Washington Post. It explains that his weekly column for twenty years was reduced to biweekly and his articles were being scrutinized for the “hook,” or their relevance to major contemporary events. The chapter discusses the author's interview with a Lebanese guitar player and Mustafa Zadeh, a jazz pianist from Azerbaijan.
Hilary Neroni
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231170710
- eISBN:
- 9780231539142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170710.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This introductory chapter discusses the shocking photographs from Abu Ghraib depicting American military personnel and their prisoners. Though the story broke on April 28, 2004, when CBS's 60 Minutes ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the shocking photographs from Abu Ghraib depicting American military personnel and their prisoners. Though the story broke on April 28, 2004, when CBS's 60 Minutes II aired the Abu Ghraib photographs, this was not the first time the public was made aware of torture after September 11. As early as December 26, 2002, the Washington Post ran a story about secret CIA detention centers, and on March 31, 2003, the Nation led with a cover story entitled “In Torture We Trust.” However, it was the Abu Ghraib photographs that finally caused the scandal, the congressional hearings, the calls for impeachment, and the widespread national debate on the ethics of torture. As powerful images, they also posed questions about violence, truth, and ideology that could not be easily answered.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the shocking photographs from Abu Ghraib depicting American military personnel and their prisoners. Though the story broke on April 28, 2004, when CBS's 60 Minutes II aired the Abu Ghraib photographs, this was not the first time the public was made aware of torture after September 11. As early as December 26, 2002, the Washington Post ran a story about secret CIA detention centers, and on March 31, 2003, the Nation led with a cover story entitled “In Torture We Trust.” However, it was the Abu Ghraib photographs that finally caused the scandal, the congressional hearings, the calls for impeachment, and the widespread national debate on the ethics of torture. As powerful images, they also posed questions about violence, truth, and ideology that could not be easily answered.
