Gary Deane pointed to Are
Online Search Tools Lulling Journalists Into Laziness? – an article
appearing in the trade publication Online Journalism Review. After
reviewing some signs of shoddy research, the article concludes with a plea to
make use of library resources. Gary Price\’s ResourceShelf
is also mentioned.
Gary Deane pointed to Are
Online Search Tools Lulling Journalists Into Laziness? – an article
appearing in the trade publication Online Journalism Review. After
reviewing some signs of shoddy research, the article concludes with a plea to
make use of library resources. Gary Price\’s ResourceShelf
is also mentioned.
To answer the question posed in the article title, yes, it certainly seems
that the pressures of real-time journalism are causing reputable news sources to
play fast and loose with their fact checking. For example:
- Last year there was a widely publicized human interest story about blondes
dying out that could have been quickly verified as
untrue. - Earlier this year a
fake CNN Website fooled many local news outlets into picking up bogus
stories. - Although the online community can sometimes help
expose bad reporting, forwarding a joke enough times can means that a
reporter may eventually think the joke is a true story. Several
The
Onion
headlines
have met this fate, and many Snopes
stories have
been presented as truthful. - Journalistic integrity can be a casualty of war, as evidenced by the Jessica Lynch
rescue and Iraqi
National Museum looting coverage.
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