[aisle] Media Literacy: 'Othering' COVID-19 | Bill Gates: Conspiracy theory target | Stay-at-home protests and Facebook
Lou Ann Jacobs
louajcbs at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 09:03:07 CDT 2020
Latest issue of The Sift has good examples of faked news spread on Twitter
along with news literacy lesson plans.
Lou Ann Jacobs
Retired High School Librarian
louajcbs at gmail.com
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Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 8:42 PM
Subject: 'Othering' COVID-19 | Bill Gates: Conspiracy theory target |
Stay-at-home protests and Facebook
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Teach news literacy this week
'Othering' COVID-19 | Bill Gates: Conspiracy theory target |
Stay-at-home protests and Facebook
‘Othering’ COVID-19
Xenophobic incidents, racism and attacks against Asian Americans — based on
false narratives that COVID-19 came from the “other” — are sadly
predictable, says Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar at the Poynter Institute,
a journalism education and advocacy organization in St. Petersburg, Florida.
“Here is how the contagion of irrationality works,” he wrote in an April 13
column
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“Someone blames it on China. By extension, the blame extends to the Chinese
people. In a diverse country like America, blame — by pure ignorance — is
extended to Chinese Americans (many who have never been in China); and
because the ignorant do not discriminate between the varieties of Asian
cultures, blame extends to all Asian Americans.”
It's a view shared by Russell Jeung, chair of the Asian American Studies
Department at San Francisco State University. In an interview with Columbia
Journalism Review
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published on April 14, he discussed the role of news organizations in
reducing such attacks — by, for example, providing broader coverage of
Asian Americans and using accurate terms (such as “COVID-19” instead of
“the Chinese virus”). Having reporters who are culturally sensitive and can
communicate in communities where English may not be widely spoken can also
help, he said.
Jeung and his graduate students have analyzed xenophobia and discrimination
in COVID-19 news coverage, and he has helped to collect firsthand accounts
of anti-Asian violence. Among the patterns they saw in global
English-language news reports about the pandemic were these: First came
racialized memes about eating Chinese food (including eating bats, which
were a possible source of the coronavirus) and wearing masks (a common
sight in Asian countries during flu season). Those were followed by reports
on cancellations of Lunar New Year events and the decline of Chinese
businesses. Next came worldwide reports about racism against Asians.
Media outlets “could be contributing to the xenophobia by calling the virus
the ‘Chinese virus,’ calling it the ‘Wuhan virus,’ by showing pictures of
Chinese people wearing masks when they’re talking about the virus, or
running stories about conspiracy theories,” Jeung told CJR. (The Jan. 27
issue
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of The Sift referred to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan coronavirus”; other news
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organizations
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used the same language around that time.)
But when he and his students looked solely at U.S. domestic news coverage,
those anti-Asian patterns were followed by reports on elected officials,
health officials and Asian Americans themselves speaking out against racism
and condemning harassment and violence. Such reports, he suggested, may
have been partially responsible for President Donald Trump’s tweets on
March 23 that Asian Americans should be protected
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and that the spread of the virus was not their fault
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.
Still, Jeung added, Trump has “a clear ‘us’-versus-‘them’ dichotomy. We
call that Orientalist language, saying that the West is different from the
East. Therefore Asian Americans are considered perpetual foreigners. That
language puts us in the out-group, and it’s easy to blame and attack the
out-group.”
*Related: *
- “’A Perfect Storm’: Extremists Look For Ways To Exploit Coronavirus
Pandemic”
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(Hannah Allam, NPR).
- “Racism is a virus too”
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(Nancy Spiegel and Tam Huynh, Bangor Daily News).
- “Political correctness is a virus that kills, too: John Phillips”
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(John Phillips, Orange County Register).
*Discuss: * How could associating COVID-19 with a geographic location
contribute to xenophobic and discriminatory attitudes? In what ways would
having a culturally and linguistically diverse newsroom staff be helpful in
covering the COVID-19 pandemic? How would you rate your local news
organizations’ coverage of COVID-19 as it reflects and relates to the Asian
American community? How would you rate national news coverage?
*Idea: * Have students review COVID-19 coverage relating to Asians and
Asian Americans since January from one standards-based news organization.
Then have students summarize their findings, including whether terms such
as “Chinese virus” or “Wuhan virus” were used, whether any photos of Asians
or Asian Americans wearing masks were used without appropriate context, and
whether reports included first-person accounts from Asian Americans about
how they have been affected by the spread of COVID-19 and the racial
perceptions of others.
Viral rumor rundown
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NO: The state of Michigan has not prohibited
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the purchase of American flags or infant car seats. YES: Pictures of American
flags
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and infant car seats
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in cordoned-off sections of stores in Michigan circulated online with these
false claims last week. YES: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order
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on April 9 requiring businesses staying open for in-person sales to “close
areas of the store ... that are dedicated to” nonessential goods, such as
carpet or flooring, furniture, garden supplies and paint. NO: A FAQ page
about the order
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specifically states that there is no ban on the sale of American flags or
infant car seats.
NO: It is not accurate
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to say that the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas is the only hotel in
the city that has not donated food or rooms to emergency personnel during
the COVID-19 pandemic. YES: Many hotels in Las Vegas, but not all of them,
have donated food to local charities or rooms to medical personnel who are
staying away from their homes to avoid spreading the coronavirus to their
families. YES: Recent reports by ProPublica
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and The Washington Post
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found that no Trump Organization hotel is participating in local programs
that offer free or reduced-rate lodging to medical personnel.
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NO: Donald Trump did not send a tweet
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on Nov, 23, 2009, criticizing President Barack Obama’s handling of the H1N1
pandemic. NO: Twitter did not allow tweets this long (more than 140
characters) until 2017
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NO: This tweet does not appear in Trump’s Twitter feed or on two websites —
trumptwitterarchive.com
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and
Factba.se
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— that archive Trump’s tweets. (He sent his first tweet on May 4, 2009.)
*Note:* Be wary of screenshots of social media posts that can’t be found in
a person’s account, especially if they are controversial or too perfect.
NO: The Pentagon did not confirm
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that the virus that causes COVID-19 got into the “chemtrail fluid supply.” NO:
Chemtrails are not real
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/17206955/186516253/655124161?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzY0OTIwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImVhODA3MTU4LTcxODMtZWExMS1hOTRjLTAwMTU1ZDAzYjFlOCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibG91YWpjYnNAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=2JG3k2RNqFAQ9dsaSRPQSSsTr69BwnmRgJ8TM-ldLl8=&emci=535ea1b7-6383-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=ea807158-7183-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8489595>.
YES: The white, cloud-like streaks from airplane engines are streams of
condensed water vapor called “contrails.” NO: There is no secret government
program or conspiracy to control the weather or people through the use of
chemicals sprayed from airplanes. YES: A 2016 survey
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found that 10% of Americans “completely” believe that there is a
“chemtrails” conspiracy; an additional 20% to 30% believe that these widely
debunked theories are “somewhat” true. YES: This item originated with
Aviation Daily, a satirical website for aviation buffs (its “About” page
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states: “This site publishes satire”) and was picked up by sites that
promote conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation, such as the
one that appears over the headline in the image above.
*Related:* “‘Chemtrail’ conspiracy theorists: The people who think
governments control the weather”
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(Chris Bell, BBC Trending).
NO: These headlines are not faked or engineered to exaggerate
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the number of COVID-19 fatalities. YES: They are two authentic headlines
from two news outlets in two cities. YES: Lenard Wells served in the Milwaukee
Police Department
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for 27 years; after he retired, he spent seven years as an instructor in
the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.
Three to teach
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*Conspiracy theories falsely linking Bill Gates** to the COVID-19 pandemic*
were mentioned 1.2 million times on TV and social media from February to
April, according to an investigation
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published April 17 by The New York Times. These falsehoods — tracked by
Zignal Labs, a media analytics company — include YouTube videos (the 10
most popular have racked up almost 5 million views) and more than 16,000
Facebook posts that have accumulated almost 900,000 “likes” and comments.
The theories — which selectively and inaccurately knit together quotes from
Gates’ speeches
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and interviews
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his connections with people such as Jeffrey Epstein
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and Bill Clinton
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and details from grants
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and other activities
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of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — advance wildly false schemes
accusing the Microsoft co-founder of having foreknowledge of the pandemic,
actually engineering the pandemic, and using the pandemic for profit or to
institute population surveillance and control mechanisms. As an example, a
YouTube video
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posted on March 21 by the Law of Liberty Baptist Church in Jacksonville,
Florida, pairs a quote from Gates’ 2010 TED Talk
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with a comment he made during a Reddit AMA
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(“Ask Me Anything”) last week to advance the apocalyptic theory that Gates
is the Antichrist and is using the pandemic to usher in the End Times. As
of April 20, it has almost 1.9 million views.
The theories have also gotten traction among antivaccination activists,
including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have seized on the moment as an
opportunity to air their longstanding opposition
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/17206972/186516270/-1544724685?hl=en&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzY0OTIwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImVhODA3MTU4LTcxODMtZWExMS1hOTRjLTAwMTU1ZDAzYjFlOCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibG91YWpjYnNAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=2JG3k2RNqFAQ9dsaSRPQSSsTr69BwnmRgJ8TM-ldLl8=&emci=535ea1b7-6383-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=ea807158-7183-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8489595>
to Gates’ vaccination advocacy efforts. Influential partisans have also
amplified aspects of the false theories. Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News’ *The
Ingraham Angle*, and Emerald Robinson, a correspondent for the conservative
website Newsmax, have both repeated conspiratorial claims on Twitter
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and former Trump advisor Roger Stone (who has been ordered to report to
federal prison by the end of this month) invoked a number of them in an
April 13 radio interview with Joe Piscopo on New York City’s AM970 The
Answer, part of the conservative Salem Media Group
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Stone’s baseless comments were then repeated, unchallenged, by a report in
the New York Post
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that has been shared almost 7,000 times on Facebook
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.
*Discuss: *Are some conspiracy theories more dangerous than others? Should
social media companies allow conspiratorial content to spread on their
platforms? What has made Bill Gates a target for such widespread conspiracy
theories? What is the impact on the national conversation of news coverage
that repeats false claims without challenging them? What impact might these
conspiracy theories have on the public reception of a vaccine for COVID-19,
should one be developed?
[image: 2]
*A spate of Facebook groups coordinating opposition to stay-at-home orders
in cities and states across the country* have been established in the last
week
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alone. At least four of them — targeting New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Wisconsin — were created by three brothers who also manage a number of
hard-line gun advocacy organizations and websites, The Washington Post
reported
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on
April 19. The next day, NBC News
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added
a fifth group (targeting Minnesota) and a fourth brother to the list.
Some of the groups are sharing advice and even Facebook event descriptions
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with each other as they organize protests against what they consider
“excessive” measures undertaken by states to fight the spread of the
COVID-19 virus. At least 13 protests
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to “reopen America” have been held in the last week, with more planned in
several states this week.
The protests have drawn a significant amount of news coverage and produced
a number of shocking
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images
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including provocative signs, Confederate flags and armed demonstrators. At
the same time, much of the coverage
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has
noted
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that these events do not represent the views
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of
most Americans about the pandemic response.
*Note: *A Facebook spokesman told the Post that promotions of protests in
New Jersey and California had been removed from the platform, saying that
“events that defy government’s guidance on social distancing aren’t allowed
on Facebook.” On April 20, a CNN reporter tweeted
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that Facebook had also removed events in Nebraska and was checking with
officials in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin “as to whether
anti-quarantine protests breaks those states’ social distancing measures.”
*Related: *
- “Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus”
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(Charlie
Warzel, The New York Times).
- “What the anti-stay-at-home protests are really about”
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(Jane Coaston, Vox).
*Discuss: *Are these protests newsworthy? Why or why not? Are news
organizations giving them too much attention? What could be the inadvertent
effects of reporting on movements like these? Are members of this movement
exercising their rights or endangering others? Should Facebook take action
against the groups where many of these protests are being organized? Why or
why not?
[image: 3]
*Bloomberg News’ decision in late October 2013* to not publish a
months-long investigation about the ties between one of China’s wealthiest
men, Wang Jianlin, and the families of top Communist Party officials was back
in the news last week
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after NPR’s David Folkenflik obtained an audio tape of remarks by Matthew
Winkler, then Bloomberg News’ editor in chief, on a conference call with
other Bloomberg editors and the China investigative team.
During the call, Folkenflik reported, Winkler expressed concerns that
publication would “invite the Communist Party to, you know, completely shut
us down and kick us out of the country.”
"So I just don't see that as a story that is justified,” Folkenflik quoted
Winkler as saying about the report on Wang. "There's a way to use the
information you have in such a way that enables us to report, but not kill
ourselves in the process and wipe out everything we've tried to build
there."
In 2013, Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, was attempting
to recover from a substantial drop in leases
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of its flagship product, the Bloomberg Terminal, in China following a
series of Bloomberg News reports in 2012 about the hidden wealth of the
families of Communist Party officials (PDF)
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The terminal — the source of Michael Bloomberg’s multibillion-dollar
fortune — provides real-time market data, analytics, news feeds and other
services to financial professionals; in 2013, the price of an annual lease
was more than $20,000. Ordering the country’s many state-owned companies
not to renew their terminal subscriptions (or start new ones) was one way
the Chinese government retaliated against Bloomberg
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for that reporting.
At the time, a Bloomberg spokesman said that the Wang investigation was “not
ready for publication.”
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Last week, both Winkler and Bloomberg News declined to comment on
Folkenflik’s reporting.
*Related: *
- “Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China”
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/17206995/186516293/2047615544?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzY0OTIwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImVhODA3MTU4LTcxODMtZWExMS1hOTRjLTAwMTU1ZDAzYjFlOCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibG91YWpjYnNAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=2JG3k2RNqFAQ9dsaSRPQSSsTr69BwnmRgJ8TM-ldLl8=&emci=535ea1b7-6383-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=ea807158-7183-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8489595>
(Edward Wong, The New York Times).
- “Resignation Revives Doubts About Bloomberg’s China Coverage”
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/17206996/186516294/363181417?storyld=294385257&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzY0OTIwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImVhODA3MTU4LTcxODMtZWExMS1hOTRjLTAwMTU1ZDAzYjFlOCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibG91YWpjYnNAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=2JG3k2RNqFAQ9dsaSRPQSSsTr69BwnmRgJ8TM-ldLl8=&emci=535ea1b7-6383-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=ea807158-7183-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8489595?storyld=294385257>
(David Folkenflik, NPR).
- “Bloomberg News’s Deepening China Problem”
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/17206997/186516295/-384166625?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzY0OTIwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImVhODA3MTU4LTcxODMtZWExMS1hOTRjLTAwMTU1ZDAzYjFlOCIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAibG91YWpjYnNAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=2JG3k2RNqFAQ9dsaSRPQSSsTr69BwnmRgJ8TM-ldLl8=&emci=535ea1b7-6383-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=ea807158-7183-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8489595>
(Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review).
- “When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg
Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out”
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(Leta
Hong Fincher, The Intercept).
*Note: *Michael Forsythe, a co-author of the 2013 investigation of Wang and
a lead reporter on the 2012 series, was suspended
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shortly
after news outlets reported on the company’s decision not to publish; he left
Bloomberg
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soon thereafter. In January 2014 he joined The New York Times, which published
his investigation of Wang
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in 2015 after he re-reported large parts of it.
*Also note: *At a standards-based news organization, leaders should strive
to maintain the independence of the newsroom. This includes ensuring that
the business interests of the publisher or parent company do not influence
news coverage.
*Discuss:* Do you think Bloomberg News’ decision not to publish the
investigation of Wang Jianlin was the right one? Why or why not? Why is it
dangerous for a news organization’s business interests to affect its
coverage, including what it considers to be “newsworthy”?
*Also discuss:* What types of sources were used as the basis of NPR’s
report? (See “Practicing Quality Journalism” in NLP’s Checkology® virtual
classroom
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.)
*Idea:* Have students review Folkenflik’s reporting (both the piece linked
in the first paragraph and the link under “Related”) and The New York
Times’ investigation of Wang Jianlin (link in “Note” above). Ask students
to take on the role of a Bloomberg editor deciding whether to publish the
report about Wang. Then ask them to write a short email explaining what
they think should be done and why. Have them send their emails to their
teacher or share them with the entire class.
What else did we find this week? Here's our list.
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