Ethical Reporting Or The Lack Of It

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1. Christopher Coulter said on October 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

   Conflicts of interest is a verb in the AP Stylebook.

   Politico, tech, travel, infotainment, and biz…dazzle them with angel dust, perks and party. As sayeth, Ecclesiastes, nothing new under the sun. And who really reports on Hollywood accurately? Well, Finke…saving grace at least. The real reporters are few and hated.

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2. Loren Feldman said on October 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

   I love Finke.

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3. Christopher Coulter said on October 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

   The feelings mutual. Didyah see the “UTA Job List” blog, gone parody? It’s a hoot.

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4. SuperJew said on October 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

   What is the Wall Street Journal Silicon Valley reporter doing ecstasy in Cyprus with a bunch of inexperienced idiot kids doing a video that was so fucking lame.

   This is a paper that has my trust. She lost my trust and the WSJ lost my trust. She has to be fired immediately. This is an embarrassment for her personally and the Wall Street Journal.

   She represents Silicon Valley tech scene ??? not for me. She has no credibility .

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5. Tom said on October 11th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

   It’s funny because I have a friend who was part of a debate on gender roles in media last week and he invited me to sit in the audience. One argument I found interesting was the idea that gender roles established in past eras are having an extremely negative impact on the news today.

   What the person argued was that news casts in the 60s and 70s created established roles in TV media where you had the older, more experienced man and the young, attractive woman. Back then everyone accepted that the woman was there for her attractiveness and so she was essentially relegated to reading from the teleprompter while the man took the heavy lifting such as reporting and commentary. But this new age of “equality above all else” has caused a lot of problems in current times because now we have the same roles but stations feel obligated to give the girl, who was hired based on her attractiveness, more of the reporting duties. With disastrous results.

   The person making the argument suggested the solution to the problem was to hire older, more experienced women but stations had trouble doing this because much of their male audience tuned in for the attractive women and they couldn’t afford to lose that audience to competitors. No one there had any great idea on how to get around that particular problem (though my favorite suggestion was to have an older man and an older woman deliver the news while a young, female stripper danced on a pole behind them)

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6. Dr.Who said on October 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

   Tech Or Tits..I’ll take Tits.. Guess there goes Morgan Webb, iJustine.. and Olivia Munn.. !!!

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7. Daniel Kemp said on October 11th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   @Dr.Who: I don’t go to those ladies for technology advice. Justine Ezarik looks like a dude with long hair, but all of them do have nice boobies.

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8. elizabethonline said on October 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

   So what you’re saying is that you’ll be calling the Wall Street Journal to recommend that Julia Allison join their business reporting staff.

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