Political campaigns make otherwise reasonable people go over the edge.
The latest example surrounds Michelle Obama’s campaign visit to Milwaukee this week in support of Mary Burke, who is trying to unseat incumbent Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
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The Boston Herald, a Murdoch outfit, didn’t even come close to trying to avoid a racist image in its editorial cartoon today. Read more →
When two girls went missing overnight on Monday, public safety officials had little choice but to release their photographs and beg people on Facebook to repost. They did. And now we all know their names and faces. Read more →
Marilyn Hagerty is a treasure in the Upper Midwest, and her review today of the chicken oriental salad at Applebee’s is another instant classic. Read more →
Here we go, again: Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s name is being mentioned as a possible attorney general now that Eric Holder is calling it quits.
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NPR has apparently been getting a lot of pushback on the subject with each subsequent execution — beheading, if you will. Read more →
NPR’s latest cost-cutting has taken out a public radio icon — Robert Krulwich.
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The lingering furor over Bill Simmons’ suspension confirms one other suspicion: A larger number of people who said they were done paying attention to the NFL are still paying attention. Read more →
Thanks to the eye of Jason DeRusha, we’re alerted to the ‘resignation’ of reporter Charlo Greene of KTVA in Alaska. The ethically-challenged Greene reported on the Alaska Cannabis Club, and never revealed that she owns the marijuana-legalization group. Read more →
Faron Hall was the kind of hero we in the news media love. And it might’ve killed him. Read more →
This is the time of year — every four years or so — when otherwise ethical journalists become willing participants in a presidential campaign’s strategy.
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A media ethicist says using the video without Janay Rice’s consent ‘violates our ethical obligation to treat Janay Rice and other survivors of intimate partner violence as people rather than vehicles for social change.’ Read more →
In an ad in the competing Star Tribune, the Minnesota Newspaper & Communications Guild said Digital First is seeking an ‘exit strategy’ from the newspaper business. Read more →
The Rochester Post-Bulletin says it will not be joining a movement by some newspapers to stop using the word “Redskins” when writing stories about Washington’s NFL team. Read more →
Substitute “killed” or “murdered” or “executed” for beheaded in this headline and does it have the same impact? Probably not. We’re generally more desensitized to the atrocities of war and terrorism and the Islamic extremists know that. Beheading carries its own terror. So should we be complicit in furthering their terror? Or is there an Read more →
Bob Collins