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Originally Posted by shakran
I somehow missed this.
Most of us are held to disclosure regulations. We're required to disclose to our company any gifts, etc, we received (and kept) over the past year that are related to our jobs. Basically, if your disclosure sheet isn't blank, and you don't have a VERY good reason for it not being blank, you're in a LOT of hot water.
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I had to follow the same kind of process when I worked in public radio. Oddly, now that I'm at a national print publication, they haven't made me do this.
Elphaba, I think I can safely say, looking at the history of journalism, things may not be as good as they were at one time, but they are certainly far better than they have been on the average. Media owners have always used their papers to do their bidding. The US entered a war because of a fabricated story in the New York Journal. Hearst wanted war, he got it by publishing an account of the bombing of the Maine, which most experts now agree was likely a boiler explosion.
I think through the mid 90’s, many journalists became lazy and thought of themselves as stars. Likewise, editors stopped editing and started “managing” coverage, and massaging the egos of their “stars”. The NYT was the worst of these (Jayson Blair anyone?) The Wash Post had their Ruth Shalit debacle.
As much as I dislike those insipid blogger segments on CNN, blogs have snapped many journalists back into line. I think things are better. The wiretapping story isn’t really getting big play because it hasn’t reached that part of the news cycle yet.