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Journalism’s job

Abeer I. al‑Najjar (AUS): How Arab is Al‑Jazeera English? Comparative Study of Al‑Jazeera Arabic and Al‑Jazeera English News Channels. From Global Journalist, a special issue on Bloody Russia. Free Press Haven: Iceland may soon become utopia for journalists and publishers. Miles Corwin on the journalistic education of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The truth is no defense: How an op-ed in a Slovenian daily left one American facing a prison sentence. American newspapers, often squeamish when it comes to running disturbing images, overcame their inhibitions after the Haitian earthquake — but to some, the deluge of images of naked corpses and severed body parts was insensitive and dehumanizing. An interview with John Maxwell Hamilton, author of Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting. Is the foreign news bureau part of the past? A review of Unreliable Sources: How the 20th Century Was Reported by John Simpson. Newspapers have lost interest in covering legislatures; can Web sites replace them? From Cracked, here are 5 things the media loves pretending are news and 6 subtle ways the news media disguises bullshit as fact. The mainstream media too often dropped sourcing standards and blindly followed the lead of the tabs and entertainment Web sites during the Tiger Woods extravaganza. They're all tabloids: A look at how British newspapers make things up. From British Journalism Review, is saving the world journalism’s job? When and under which conditions is journalism in the "public interest"? (and more) A review of Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies. An excerpt from Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism by W. Joseph Campbell. Where's Wikipedia in NYU's list of the decade's top journalism?