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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Photographers: How do you pay the bills?

Interesting discussion How do you pay the bills? going on on the Lightstalkers website. Very relevant, especially for the aspiring photojournalists.

Friday, February 16, 2007

Journalistic Balance Can Lead to Bias

Good article from 2004 called Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias describes how superficial balance — telling "both" sides of the story —can actually be a form of informational bias.

Balanced coverage does not, however, always mean accurate coverage. In terms of the global warming story, "balance" may allow skeptics—many of them funded by carbon-based industry interests—to be frequently consulted and quoted in news reports on climate change. Ross Gelbspan, drawing from his 31-year career as a reporter and editor, charges in his books The Heat Is On and Boiling Point that a failed application of the ethical standard of balanced reporting on issues of fact has contributed to inadequate U.S. press coverage of global warming.