![]() Sullivan encouraged Miller to keep his subscription in a column well worth your time. The reader, Jeffrey Miller, told the Post, “The reality is that the only reason I keep my Mercury News subscription is out of guilt.’’ (Unfortunately, that can be said about most papers.) A reader of the San Jose Mercury News reached out to her with a question: keep subscribing to the “Merc’’ to support local journalism or stop subscribing because he doesn’t want his money going to an ownership group (Digital First Media) that he thinks cares more about profits than journalism? It also doesn’t help that the Mercury News, because of budget cuts and bad deadlines, is no longer the paper it used to be. This is a terrific piece by Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. But since becoming president, more than half of his negative tweets about the media have included the term “fake news.’’ The other interesting item: Trump didn’t use the term “enemy of the people’’ until February 17, 2017. One, the term “fake news’’ didn’t appear in a Trump tweet until December 2016, which was after he was elected. That led the CPJ’s North America program to create a database to track Trump’s tweets that mention the media in a negative tone.Ī couple of interesting tidbits in the CPJ report. Since becoming president, according to CPJ, Trump has tweeted more than 5,400 times to his nearly 58 million followers and 11 percent of those tweets either “insulted or criticized journalists and outlets, or condemned or denigrated the news media as a whole.’’ Since announcing his candidacy for president and up until Wednesday, President Donald Trump had sent 1,339 tweets about the media that were considered “critical, insinuating, condemning or threatening.’’ All that is according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. “This means a lot to me personally - that Parkland parents felt we channeled the grief into something productive and used the power of the press the way it was intended.’’ Trump vs. Brittany Wallman, one of the Sun-Sentinel reporters who has covered the Parkland shootings, tweeted : ![]() The letter then linked to several articles written by the Sun-Sentinel. But long after the national media moved on to the next controversy, local reporters here kept at it.’’ “This was the most avoidable mass murder in American history, enabled by a sheriff’s office and a school district characterized by administrative incompetence so staggering and moral corruption so deep that it took the Sun-Sentinel the better part of the year to uncover it all. We wanted to know the answers to the question that the media used to ask after a school shooting. “But it was not enough for the families of the children who were murdered. Two parents who lost children in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings in Parkland, Florida, wrote an open letter Wednesday asking the Pulitzer Prize board to recognize the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for its coverage of the shootings and its aftermath.įathers Andrew Pollack and Ryan Petty, in a letter published on Real Clear Education’s website, wrote that most of the national media’s coverage centered on gun control: But one paper in particular is being endorsed for journalism’s highest award and you might be surprised who is advocating its coverage. You would like to believe that any journalist would gladly trade in a trophy to erase a horrible event.Ĭertainly those who covered the worst high school shooting in American history wish the events of that day never happened. It always seemed like an uncomfortable juxtaposition: winning a journalism award for writing about a horrible tragedy, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or a deadly weather calamity. ![]() ![]() Parkland parents praise South Florida Sun-Sentinel ![]()
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