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“Independent” analysis; class warfare (think tanks)

February 2, 2016 by William Eaton

A follow-up to a previous discussion of how experts, and the media that aids and abets them, and the class interests that pay these experts’ salaries—they’re in the mask-making business.   A January 26 New York Times story reported that “according to an independent analysis” the proposed trade pact between North American countries, the United States in particular, and Pacific rim nations “would increase incomes, exports and growth in the United States . . . and would not cost overall […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: academia, Barack Obama, capitalism, class warfare, corporations, journalism, New York Times, Paul Krugman, trade pact, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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Kalamazoo, Michigan, by race

Coates, Allport, Maynard—Inter-Ethnic Mixing

January 18, 2016 by William Eaton

What happened after Ta-Nehisi Coates visited our city? By Sue Ellen Christian   Everything and nothing, as you would expect. But also, for me, old ideas from the American psychologist Gordon Allport and the journalist Robert Maynard got a new hold on my imagination. The auditorium was packed with 2,500 people and could have held more but word circulated that it would be standing-room only, so many people stayed away, though they didn’t need to, as the upper balconies still […]

Categories: Essay • Tags: Gordon Allport, journalism, Kalamazoo, race relations, Robert Maynard, segregation, Ta-Nehisi Coates

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How does the good become good?

June 4, 2015 by William Eaton

Two disparate analogies to help us begin thinking about how the process works. A drug company tests its latest concoctions—e.g. statins—to see what effects they have. Discovering something one of these concoctions can do—lower high LDL cholesterol—the company engages its public relations and advertising arms in trumpeting the value of doing this thing. Lowering LDL cholesterol becomes something essential to prolonging human life. (And this in a time when, for example, obesity and poverty are much more life-threatening than LDL […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: ethics, Jean-Paul Sartre, journalism, Marx, Thoreau

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What’s Holding Digital News Back?

June 2, 2015 by William Eaton

In the first of three articles in the New York Review of Books on “Digital Journalism: How Good Is It?” author Michael Massing gives himself this assignment: That digital technology is disrupting the business of journalism is beyond dispute. What’s striking is how little attention has been paid to the impact that technology has had on the actual practice of journalism. The distinctive properties of the Internet—speed, immediacy, interactivity, boundless capacity, global reach—provide tremendous new opportunities for the gathering and […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Edward R. Murrow, Internet, journalism, New York Review of Books, ProPublica

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Ferguson, Journalism, Twitter

December 17, 2014 by William Eaton

The news media and social media: Together for better and for worse    By Sue Ellen Christian and Herbert Lowe {Note: This is the second in Zeteo‘s Fall 2014 series of pieces related to borders.}   St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch indicted both traditional news media and social media when he announced the grand jury’s decision to not recommend charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American, under […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2014 Issue • Tags: Ferguson, journalism, racism, Twitter

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Of Earthquakes, Stormy Seas, and Zeteo

November 9, 2014 by William Eaton

  In a call with New York Times investors, the company’s chief executive said the Times was seeking to be “unashamedly experimental and willing to adapt.” He was quoted in a newspaper article about how the company was, once again, reporting a quarterly loss, and this not least because of costs associated with buying out and laying off its employees. It will be news to no one that the Internet has been a kind of earthquake for journalism, journalists, and […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: education, Internet, journalism, publishing, universities

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“There is nothing remotely objective about photography”

July 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] (1) The quotation of the title, the photograph at right, and the words below are from Object Lessons, an article by the photojournalist Nina Berman, who also teaches at the Columbia University Journalism School.  The article caught my eye because it features some powerful images and also because, concurrently, I was reading an intriguing Zeteo submission about how news stories fit within long-long-standing narrative traditions (e.g. of parables or moral tales). That said, I turn you over to Professor Berman, from the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Africa, art, corporations, crime, journalism, photography, women

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Henrietta Lacks (re The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks)

Consent and Money

November 19, 2013 by William Eaton

A dialogue on the ethical dilemmas in the reporting and writing of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Sue Ellen Christian and Ann Miles Sue Ellen Christian is an associate professor of journalism at Western Michigan University. Her book, Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture and Context was published in 2012 by Holcomb Hathaway. Ann Miles, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist. She is the author of From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration and Living […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: anthropology, ethics, Henrietta Lacks, journalism

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Mobility: 16-22 Sept 2012 (ZiR)

September 17, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Assistant Editor 16 September 2012 I would like to begin this week of reading by calling attention to one of Kitty Calavita’s most recent books: Invitation to Law and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2010.) There, Calavita argues that legal constructions shape human behavior, and, in turn, human behavior shapes legal constructions. As I was reading her friendly “invitation,” I came to wonder if non-legal citizens can also shape the way that a country creates legal constructions. […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: beliefs, Hispanic, immigration, journalism, law, objectivity, sociology, war

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