After four years of being employed with The New York Times, journalist Jayson Blair has resigned when the company discovered he had been committing acts of journalistic fraud and misleading readers in hundreds of articles. Blair had been fabricating stories and plagiarizing material from other news sources and wire services often throughout his career. He wrote about fictional scenes he had made up and claimed to be reporting from other states such as Maryland and Texas when he was actually in New York, according to the New York Times article published in May of 2003. Among the false stories published includes incidents when Blair lied about being at a police chief’s home, outside of a soldier’s home, and even a court meeting. He also wrote falsely about sniper attacks in the state of …show more content…
According to The New York Times, mistakes occurred in his work repeatedly and his behavior was very unprofessional. “I actually spent some time studying Jayson Blair in high school,” stated Isabelle Greco, a freshman at The College of New Jersey. “It was really interesting how there were so many warning signs that something wasn’t right with his publications, but he still managed to deceive everyone for so long.” Fourteen years later, it is still a work in progress for the journalism world to gain back its credibility. Many are skeptical about the things they read both online and in print. The Times struggled to gain its once-unapproachable reputation back. “The idea that such a young reporter could do so much harm to such a prestigious newspaper almost seems impossible,” wrote Jonathan Bailey, a writer for the online iThenticate blog. The company’s value and reputation have been damaged by Jayson Blair more than any other event over the last century and a half, according to Michael Wolff’s NY Mag article. Blair caused employees to revolt, media to go crazy and Feds to
unearthed one of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century. Bernstein and Woodward were not aware of how well they worked together. "They had never worked on a s...
The media in 1964 helped fuel the lies by publishing headlines such as " American Planes Hit North Vietnam after 2nd attack on our Destroyers", "Move taken to Halt New Aggression". The Los Angeles Times even reported that the Vietnamese "themselves escalated the hostilities". The incorrect news reports were reported to have all come from "almost exclusive reliance on government officials as sources of information.
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Bradford writes the article in a unique fashion. She writes it as a story. Everything in the article is an experience, which make this article more interesting and convincing. Her first an anchor job was at the age of 18, she was an intern for Joan Lunden at KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. She lost that job 10 years later so she met with Peter Brennan, the producer of A Current Affair, and he gave Bradford a job as an anchor. 6 months later they wanted her to portray a bimbo rape victim in a reenactment. She refused and went on with her life. After she was done at A Current Affair, she worked at The Reporters. She ended her career with a show hosted by Geraldo Rivera named Now It Can Be Told. She worked in tabloid TV for five years and has a lot of experience with it and that helps to make this article convincing.
Today’s mass media has been molded by hundreds of years of reporting, journalism, and personal opinions. America’s mainstream media thrives upon stretching the truth and ‘creating’ interesting stories for the public. Tactics like this can be credited to people such as William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper mogul from the late 19th to the 20th centuries. Hearst greatly influenced the practice of American journalism through his wealth, short political career, and use of unorthodox reporting methods such as yellow journalism.
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Articles in the New York Times that were written by Jayson Blair were fabricated which lead to the two main editors of the newspaper to resign
But he goes on telling the reader that many of his stories are true. Whether anyone will really know or not, a true war story is never the full truth. A veteran of war will leave out details and gruesome facts of their experience while fighting in war. They do it either to suppress certain memories or they genuinely forgot what really happened, their story is never the full version. O’Brien, Hung, and Gwin all witnessed war first hand in Vietnam. Each man had seen different things and had been in situations that required them to risk one life to save others. The war in Vietnam had forever changed these men. However, no one will ever truly believe their story as the true
At the beginning of the movie, Stephen Glass, who is the narrator throughout the movie, speaks about how important it is that a journalist knows who he is writing for and what he is good at. This explains to an extent why he crossed the boundaries to write false articles simply because he knew what subjects would be able to engross the readers and he was good at doing that. Despite the fact that Stephen deliberately applied that perception in the wrong way, he was able to capture the minds of many readers at large with creative and funny stories and this capped his career. I must say I was impressed with how guileful Stephen Glass was in carrying out this act but was disappointed in the end when his excuses were extremely cynical. He should have been prepared to prove the accusations false knowing he wrote a couple of false articles. It was not quite sensible of him to write an article about a software company that exists without having sources to back it up. Although, he was skillful he was at writing lies, h...
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To conclude, when public journalism is being practiced, a larger percentage of reports face an innumerable amount of issues that lie in their content, the journalists themselves, and their audience. What is being reported by professionals, traditional journalist, constitutes as “good journalism” because of their ability to maintain and provide accurate, unbiased reports, fulfill being a good neighbor and watchdog, while adjusting to our growing technological advancements with an newer and improved rapid reporting. Thus, traditional journalism holds the persisting dominance over their competitors, public journalism.
This affects the role of journalism in the American press, because journalist have a code of ethics to abide to, instead of protecting their chain of command. During a time of private ownership in the mass media, undercover reporting has been negatively labeled, considering they are ignoring the power-dynamics in the news room. Through personal experience on a college student-publication, I single-handling witnessed the hierarchy in the newsroom, which always changed the narrative of my story. I was not reporting student-newsworthy information, rather putting a student narrative through my executive 's approval. Following this hierarchy in the news room exemplifies how the role of journalism is regulated by the very few people who own and operate these news outlets. Undercover stories are researched in secrecy and usually information is not exposed until the whole article or publication is released. The lack of undercover journalism is a result of the immense power news executives have to manipulate news. Brooke Kroeger, Professor at New York University is an advocate for undercover reporting and what is has done for the news industry. Kroeger states, “[Undercover reporting] has proved to be an indispensable tool in the high-value, high-impact journalism of changing systems and righting wrongs” (Kroeger 8). Throughout her book, she
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It’s a question that keeps floating around in the public sphere: is print advertising and newspapers dead? The world is becoming more and more fast-paced and although, our want and need for the up-to-date news and breaking stories has not changed, the way in which we consume it has. This background report investigates and explains the downfall of the newspaper and the technological shift to online news. It will also discuss differing opinions of this relevant topic of the future of journalism from a range of reliable primary sources and investigative data.
McLoed and Hawley (as cited in Wilson, 1995) elucidated appropriately, "a recurrent journalistic controversy has involved the question whether journalism is a true profession or merely a craft." Sparked primarily by Lippmann and Dewey, extending into the age of the penny press (mid 1980s) and later, the attempt to commercialise the news (late 1980s) to our present era, there has existed a contentious debate on journalism being distinguished as a profession (Wilson, 1995).