links for 2009-08-07
Aug 7, 2009 Author: Joanna | Filed under: Uncategorized-
"The portrayal of the news media in the Harry Potter series of books may have a significant impact on children's understanding of journalistic integrity or journalism as a career, according to a study by Baylor University researchers."
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"Online journalism that you can charge for has to be either very good or very useful, and just being good probably won’t cut it for long either. There is too much excellent material that is free and will remain so."
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"Hackers from Russia may have attacked Google, Twitter and Facebook in an attempt to silence a pro-Georgian blogger, it has emerged "
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One Response for "links for 2009-08-07"
I liked the Harry Potter link:) But (although I haven’t read the books) it doesn’t sound like they do anything unusual – most fiction portrays journalists as scum or, sometimes, heroes (solving crimes etc). I suspect even young readers know it’s only fiction . . .
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