Re: journalists' ethics

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

Oops.  Operator error, clicked my mouse once to often.

Let us not forget the editors.  A misleading headline or a well-placed
drawing or cartoon can make the clearest and most accurate reporting
irrelavent.

Don Kosloff <dkosloff@ncweb.com>
Perry OH

----- Original Message -----
From: Weiner, Ruth <rfweine@sandia.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 6:27 PM
Subject: RE: journalists' ethics


> I used to have journalists talk to my intro environmental studies classes,
> and I learned from them that they try to quote accurately but make no
> judgments about the accuracy of what they are quoting.  Lately, that has
> seemed like an excuse.  They also manipulate the information by the number
> of column inches or minutes of exposure given to one point of view or
> another.
>
> Clearly only my own opinion.
>
> Ruth Weiner
>


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