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1. Stranger than fiction: on plagiarism and fabrication

       1.ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair: “I lied about a plane flight I never took, about sleeping in a car I never rented, about a landmark on a highway I had never been on. I lied about a guy who helped me at a gas station that I found in the Internet and about crossing railroad tracks I only knew existed because of aerial photographs in my private collection.”     – “Ex-Reporter for the Times Tells in a Book of Deceptions” by Jacques Steinberg, The
New York Times, 24 Feb. 2004 at nytimes.com (paper copy available at the department)   

NOTE NOTE NOTE ASSIGNMENT ASSIGNMENT (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 04-04032. See BB. thanks)

       2.Interviews of Philippine editors and practitioners on the Jayson Blair scandal: “More Collegial, Less Dictatorial” by PJR editors, PJR June 2003 (available at the department)

     NOTE NOTE NOTE ASSIGNMENT  (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 03-52174. See BB. thanks.)

       3.ex-reporter Stephen Glass: “I Lied for Self-Esteem”, at CBSNews.com 17 Aug. 2003 (available at the department)

     

NOTE NOTE NOTE ASSIGNMENT  (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 04-42520. See BB)

        4.a website-generated fictitious reporter: “The White House Stages Its `Daily Show’” by Frank Rich, 20 Feb. 2005, The New York Times, at nytimes.com (paper copy available at the department)

       (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 04-62930. See BB. thanks.)    

   5..”Shattered Glass” by Lions Gate Films, a movie about Stephen Glass, starring Hayden Christensen and Peter Sarsgaard nominated Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor Written and directed by Billy Ray. (film-showing) 

         B.On TV entertainment taking over the airwaves: 

      6. “Wowowee: Television and the Perils of Peddling Dreams: by Sheila Coronel, Feb. 9, 2006, at www.pcij.org/blog 

    

 (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 05-78803. See BB. thanks.)

      7. “TV Wars: Not Without Danger” by Luz Rimban, PJR Dec. 2002, pp. 25-27      (DISCUSSANT: Student Number 04-08330)

            C.On gender-sensitive reporting and writing     

         8. “How well did the press do its job? Covering Nicole” by Venus Elumbre, PJR Jan. 2007

      (see also and discuss the blog entries of Prof. Rachel Khan on the topic, at khanterbury.blogspot.com)

    

(DISCUSSANT: Student Number 01-59439. See BB. thanks.)

        9.Justice Isagani Cruz’s gay-bashing column in the Aug. 12, 2006 issue of the Inquirer, “Don we now our gay apparel” and Manolo Quezon III’s comment on it.  column, Inquirer, Aug. 14, 2006, “The Long View: The Grand Inquisitor” (copy available at the department) 

(DISCUSSANT: Student Number 04-38716. See BB. thanks.) Others: 

  

        On “refraining from reporting adversely on private reputation unless the public interest justifies it”. Garci tape “audio expert” Jonathan Tiongco’s damage suit vs. the PCIJ for “invasion of privacy” based on an article that enumerated his pending criminal cases and “two children each with two spouses” entitled “Mike Defensor’s Expert” by Vinia Datuinginoo, 12 Aug. 2005 at pcij.org/blog (paper copy available in the department.) then read the following commentaries: “Subversion”, 16 March 2006, Inquirer, at news.inq7.net/opinion  (paper copy available at the department) and “Premature” by “The Sassy Lawyer” (Connie Veneracion) at houseonahill.net (paper copy available at the department). (TO BE ASSIGNED ON MONDAY)

         Additional article on corruption in the media. Corruption in the police beat. Thesis of Edson Tandoc, Department ofJournalism U.P. College of Mass Communication. “Observance of Ethical Standards in the Police Beat”, pp. 54-70. (copy available in the department.)

(TO BE ASSIGNED ON MONDAY)

     

          Additional article on coup- reporting.: “Coup 2003: Media Spectacle” by Evelyn Katigbak, PJR Aug.-Sept. 2003, pp. 16-19. (copy available in the department). (TO BE ASSIGNED ON MONDAY).

Schedule: losing my voice if no recovery weekend we’ll watch assigned film at half-time of monday schedule. thanks.