Monday’s Muse.

mediaforum.ie wants to dialogue about the media in Ireland. This, however, poses a problem.

Any subject matter to be analysed and looked at, needs to have a current, accurate and meaningful set of measurement criteria.

Or does it?

How can it be done?

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Paper Round.
tuppenceworth’s Paper Round seems to be the only easily accessible comparative analysis around at the moment.

The qualitative analysis worked at:

to read them with a critical eye- to note down when news reports don’t tally with what they know, or when columnist’s arguments don’t make sense. Or when they seem to be intent on talking about something that has nothing to do with you.
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February 05th 2007 Posted to Monday's Muse

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So, we’ve had Bono editing The Independent and now a Turkish Newspaper choosing a nobel prize winner.

What Irish celebrity would you choose to be editor in chief, of which Irish paper?

Nobel winner Orhan Pamuk is editor-in-chief for a day
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Novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk devoted the front page of a
major Turkish newspaper Sunday to the oppression of artists in his
native country, fulfilling an old dream of becoming a professional
journalist, if only for a day.

Pamuk, whose trial last year for the crime of ‘insulting Turkishness’
received international condemnation, has a degree in journalism but had
never practiced the profession. He was given editorial privileges for
the Sunday edition of the newspaper Radikal.

Pamuk’s cover story criticized the Turkish press and the state for the
suppression of free expression in Turkey.

Source: AP, International Herald Tribune, via European Journalism Centre

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Monday’s Muse.

What’s the line(s) between professional and personal integrity for a news reporter, and what determines the line(s)?

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Monday’s Muse.

After Objectivity; what moral norms should govern news reporting?

This is the question posed by Kenneth L Woodward (Newsweek magazine, New York) as a paper title at the 2006 Cleraun Media Conference.

(His answer runs to five and a half thousand words exploring the New York Times coverage of a single issue, “partial-birth” abortion.)

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