The PE and the Californian continue to wage battle over southwest Riverside County...but how is the reporting, the photos and the layouts?
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Weekend fun
Rani Gupta did a good job in revisiting a new cell phone policy at Temecula schools. But I do have an issue with the lede:
You won't see GreatOakHigh School senior Tyler Harrington give a ringing endorsement to a new policy barring the use of cell phones and iPods from district campuses during the school day.
Ringing endorsement huh. Did that get spit out of the cliché machine?
Nice Job Aaron Claverie. Interesting read on illegal vendors in LakeElsinore. 'nuff said.
Claverie also did the story on a VistaMurrietaHigh School student suspended for wearing an anti-obama shirt. Regardless of how I feel about this, this was plain and simple terrible journalism. If you can’t get the parents to give their names or the student to use their name then you shouldn’t be writing this story. This isn’t Watergate here. This violates the reader’s trust. DO NOT USE ANONYMOUS SOURCES for school stories. Maybe I’m wrong but I think the editor should never have allowed this. What’s next using an anonymous source for a school board meeting? Wait the Cal has already done that when quoting John Hunneman.
Over at the PE it’s rehash time.
Do these reporters even check what has been written in the past?
Jeff Horseman did a story about the local hospitals expanding and does it like it’s new news. It’s not. Anyone driving past Rancho Springs for the past two years could have seen the construction. Check your clips PE reporters.
Anything with ties to the Zodiac is interesting. Doug Quan and Sonja Bjelland do this nice piece on an Inland victim.
6 comments:
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I hope you are just trying to be provocative with some of your observations. Surely you can't be serious about half of what you're "observing." The t-shirt story... I think Claverie makes the point clear IN the story -- fear of retribution -- as to why the names of the girl/family weren't used.
It's pretty valid. Plus the focus was on the district policy and how it did/didn't fit with the 1st Amendment.
Yeah no shit. Anonymous Blogger, you are so obnoxious. Be careful what you write. We already know you were a former PE employee and where you supposedly earned a degree. The next little bit about yourself you let slip and we'll be searching your ass in public records, tearing through your life line by line. If you think we're writing about nothing now, wait until you're that nothing in the headlines.
Wow one of these commenters scares me a bit because they sound like an actual reporter. Is this what journalism has turned to, caring about what a blogger writes? A blogger is someone who voices their opinions for the sake of voicing it. They should not sway the news or have an affect on the news because they are just a blogger. Keep on blogging blogger because I find the little tidbits interesting. Beats actually reading all the papers.
Fear of retribution? What about the people quoted in crime stories or in court stories? What about teachers we interview in labor disputes? Or residents going up against the city? Should we stop using names altogether in the newspaper because someone fears retaliation? It's a school what kind of retaliation are we looking at.
I think you should call out hunneman more often. His column is a waste of space. Its disturbing that the californian is so small town that it resorts to quoting him in a story (anonymously) -- pathetic little paper.
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6 comments:
I hope you are just trying to be provocative with some of your observations.
Surely you can't be serious about half of what you're "observing."
The t-shirt story... I think Claverie makes the point clear IN the story -- fear of retribution -- as to why the names of the girl/family weren't used.
It's pretty valid.
Plus the focus was on the district policy and how it did/didn't fit with the 1st Amendment.
Did the Anonymous Blogger just try to lecture someone for using anonymous sources?
Are you kidding?
Signed,
Anonymous
Yeah no shit. Anonymous Blogger, you are so obnoxious. Be careful what you write. We already know you were a former PE employee and where you supposedly earned a degree.
The next little bit about yourself you let slip and we'll be searching your ass in public records, tearing through your life line by line.
If you think we're writing about nothing now, wait until you're that nothing in the headlines.
Wow one of these commenters scares me a bit because they sound like an actual reporter. Is this what journalism has turned to, caring about what a blogger writes? A blogger is someone who voices their opinions for the sake of voicing it. They should not sway the news or have an affect on the news because they are just a blogger.
Keep on blogging blogger because I find the little tidbits interesting. Beats actually reading all the papers.
Fear of retribution? What about the people quoted in crime stories or in court stories? What about teachers we interview in labor disputes? Or residents going up against the city? Should we stop using names altogether in the newspaper because someone fears retaliation? It's a school what kind of retaliation are we looking at.
I think you should call out hunneman more often. His column is a waste of space. Its disturbing that the californian is so small town that it resorts to quoting him in a story (anonymously) -- pathetic little paper.
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