American Prospect: Are reporters reporting or making the news?
March 27th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Journalism
Should journalists report, explain, but also ‘make news’, asks American Prospect’s Ezra Klein.
Klein refers to assertions made by CNN’s Ed Henry about a recent Obama press conference, in which Henry said his strategy was to ‘make news on something unexpected’ – a tactic that lead to the story on overturning the policy at Dover Air Force Base preventing media coverage of coffins returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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