... page peroration, where Coulter indicts the snobbish Times for waiting two days to cover the racing accident that killed NASCAR idol Dale Earnhardt. The morning after the accident, in fact, a story on Earnhardt's demise appeared on page one, under the byline of Robert Lipsyte, one of the paper's most distinguished reporters. (With her customary chutzpah, Coulter denied that this was ... in Washington. That same enmity infected the coverage of Democratic nominee Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election. False stories designed to ruin Gore's reputation, including phony and distorted qu...

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... . Trigboff 129: 20-25) Last year Columbia University published a journalism review documenting the attempt of one television news station to create a news program that exemplified "old fashioned" news, where the story was the top concern instead of the look, age, or sex of the correspondent. The station was WBBM of Chicago, owned by CBS. Hank Price, the general manager and "brains ... thought was: let's just base-line this whole idea of TV news. Let's get a group of good journalists together, put them in a room, and have them argue about what's a great story for that day." The anchor of ...

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... are through gifts, vacations in abroad and cash. Although Jake Makaset the publisher of Malaya and the Philippine Press institute said that his idea of corruption isselling yourself, selling your story for money?.. it takes two, the giver and the taker to consummate the act.? (Hofilena,1998) In his opinion, the gifts are not a form of bribery. From Jake Makasets's viewpoint ... for the images the politicians project. The earliest written accounts of politicians massaging journalists? egos and pockets go back to the 1950's. Rene Constantino's :The State of the Philippine Press? quotes as...

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... was not really what it seems? So again, they just reassure what they had seen, through what they have perceived through the media. There are always two sides to each story. And how do they know that that certain laundry detergent is the right one to get out that grass stain? They must have seen some sort of advertisement claiming that ... awareness about. Mass media is definitely a medium for communication. And there is nothing negative about that, until huge corporations begin abusing the media. In reference to Dorothy E. Smith's article, she quotes literacy critic Raymond Williams, wh...

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