Comments on: The challenge of being a young journalist

By: Going viral like Marilyn Hagerty | The Inside Scoop

Going viral like Marilyn Hagerty | The Inside Scoop — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:37:52 +0000

[...] writing about the ESPN incident, I think Alex Johnson, an experienced journalist with MSNBC, makes an excellent point about young [...]

By: Tom Barclay

Tom Barclay — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:35:58 +0000

I’m with Matthew on this one. I’m 26, and I find it VERY hard to believe that the editor was simply unaware of history of a commonly used slur. I think it has more to do with him rushing the story to print after having a Freudian slip– perhaps in that moment he focused more on pumping out a quick little eye-catching play-on-words headline without taking five seconds to THINK about what had just been typed out. It says a lot about how knee-jerk reporting to keep up with the rest of the online landscape is becoming more of a liability to journalistic credibility.

By: Matthew Salesses

Matthew Salesses — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:27:57 +0000

I wrote about this the other day. I’m 29. I’ve been called a chink plenty of times. There is NO way he didn’t know what he was doing. Also, an editor is presumably someone who reads a lot of other stuff online and would know that way, too.