Sarah Pulliam Bailey

The tweet heard 'round the journalism world

Between Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and text messaging, I’m always a bit terrified that a fleeting opinion will come back to come back to haunt me. For instance, I once was appropriately chastised for making fun of an organization that I covered in my private Gmail chat status. So half of me reacted to Octavia Nasr’s CNN firing over a tweet with a twinge of sympathy while the other half of me said, “What was she thinking?”


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Unethical outing?

Last week, we looked at coverage of a magazine article that exposed a pastor’s participation in a group for men “struggling with same-sex attraction.” At that point, I highlighted the good and bad sections of an Associated Press article that covered the fallout of the original article.


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Playing pin the sin on the pastor

The other day, Cathy Lynn Grossman suggested that some of ironic twists she’s seen in the news come from someone who offers truth claims and then turns out to be hypocritical. You might think another one of those stories is brewing if you read Poynter’s Romenesko blog.


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