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<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…

Journalism Fail Media Missed It: Winning Candidate Served Time for Murder “We’ve been hearing the warnings for years now,” Vincent Duffy, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, wrote Thursday. “At journalism conferences, in the trades, and amongst ourselves we’ve heard some variation of this: ‘If newsrooms keep cutting reporters, while demanding higher story…

In the end, it did not seem to matter whether Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist, was a victim of poor wording and poor editing. His past spoke more loudly. Cohen, 72, has been a columnist at the Post since 1976, more than enough time to have built up a reservoir of comments viewed as…

One of the most powerful storms to have ever made landfall dominated news coverage over Veterans Day, with news outlets chasing as many angles as they could in the Philippines tragedy, including first-person accounts, where to send aid, the connection to climate change and, no doubt, finding an American face to place on the story.…

U.S. of “Enormous Assistance” Despite Frosty Relations Venezuela released Miami Herald reporter Jim Wyss after nearly 48 hours in custody, the Miami Herald reported. World Editor John Yearwood, who went to Venezuela to help secure Wyss’ release, messaged Journal-isms from Caracas, “There’s no question that the release would not have happened this quickly without the…

Don Lemon Protests, “I Am Not Supporting Stop-and-Frisk” CNN Anchor Reviled for Commentary on Joyner Radio Show CNN anchor Don Lemon, reviled on social media for a commentary headlined, “STOP and FRISK: Would You Rather Be Politically Correct or Safe and Alive?” told Journal-isms categorically Wednesday, “I am not supporting stop-and-frisk” and said his remarks…

Newspapers Won’t Rock Boat on Tributes to “Lost Cause” The new movie “12 Years a Slave,” based on a true story, establishes beyond doubt that American slavery was the very definition of evil. So why do monuments to those who fought to perpetuate the evil still dot the landscape of Southern states? And what are…

Obama Likes “Bull Sessions” With Columnists Handful of Black Journalists Have Participated Even as the Obama administration is being criticized as the “most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” in the words of David E. Sanger of the New York Times, President Obama himself is increasingly talking at length in off-the-record sessions with small…

“In a setback for the New York Post, a district judge on Tuesday dismissed an effort to dispatch a lawsuit from a former employee alleging that she was harassed while at the paper and unlawfully fired,” Sam Stein and Michael Calderone reported for the Huffington Post. “The suit, brought by onetime Post editor Sandra Guzman,…

“ABC is apologizing for a segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt,” the Associated Press reported on Monday. “The boy’s unscripted comment (‘Kill everyone in China,’ he suggested) came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking…