Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
This project sets out to demonstrate that media coverage can degrade a society’s image by using selective news without context. This blog uses Los Angeles as an example. It is a reaction to the frequent misrepresentations of Israel in many ways in major media. Although the local LA TV news media has been somewhat fair in its coverage of the Middle East – in general – the national media has not, ESPECIALLY the LA Times, the sources of which will be used extensively in this blog's coverage of LA.
Welcome to the Bad News From Los Angeles blog!
News coverage from Israel is often distorted if measured against the 'Code of Ethics' guidelines of journalism. The origins of “bad news” about a country thus lie with numerous foreign (and even local) media. This project exposes one of many methods used. The blog that started it all, “Bad News from the Netherlands" has raised major international interest since it appeared on the web in October 2007. Many thanks are due to all those who have contributed news, ideas and financing. Support us to expand this project. Act against the biased media: start a “bad news” blog about another country (or metropolitan area). If you need any help getting started, please contact badnewsfromthenetherlands@gmail.com.
Links
Do It Yourself
The "Bad News Movement" is not a franchise, but consists of independent initiatives of which Bad News from the Netherlands is the first. Yet as the initiator of the movement, we would like to make a few suggestions to those who want to establish similar projects:
1. Always keep in mind the target of the blog: showing only negative items about a country makes its society aware of how some of their media distort the image of Israel.
2. Focus on items from leading sources such as the government, major media, well-known institutions.
3. Do not concentrate on one or a few areas. Deal with as many major aspects of the country as possible: government, politics, justice, media, culture, civil society, etc.
4. Do not exaggerate issues beyond what is mentioned. A collection of bad news is bad enough without blowing up the facts. Let the facts speak for themselves.
5. While one can draw part of the information from the more sensational papers, let them not dominate the blog.
6. Do not emphasize ethnicity of people where it is irrelevant to the issue.
7. When necessary, provide comments on issues which require it, but try to present the majority of issues without comment.
1. Always keep in mind the target of the blog: showing only negative items about a country makes its society aware of how some of their media distort the image of Israel.
2. Focus on items from leading sources such as the government, major media, well-known institutions.
3. Do not concentrate on one or a few areas. Deal with as many major aspects of the country as possible: government, politics, justice, media, culture, civil society, etc.
4. Do not exaggerate issues beyond what is mentioned. A collection of bad news is bad enough without blowing up the facts. Let the facts speak for themselves.
5. While one can draw part of the information from the more sensational papers, let them not dominate the blog.
6. Do not emphasize ethnicity of people where it is irrelevant to the issue.
7. When necessary, provide comments on issues which require it, but try to present the majority of issues without comment.
"Bad News" in the Media
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(260)
-
▼
January
(76)
- Cops Fighting Crime Spree at UCLA
- Racial Tensions at Kennedy High School
- Housing Crisis Makes Credit Hard to Come By
- More Fall-Out From the Hollywood Writers Strike
- Fiscal Stress in Orange County
- The Los Angeles Area and the Foreclosure Crisis
- Craqcking Down On Illegal Immigrants
- High School Honors Three Who Have Fallen
- Falling Prices
- Retaliatory Gang Shootings in Watts
- Mortgage Company Losses
- Court Trial of LA Man Accused of Being Saddam Info...
- Anti-Semitic Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations in LA ...
- Rain Storms in California
- Gang Member Gets Life in Prison
- Another Drive-By Shooting in LA Kills One
- Hijacking Hoax at LAX
- Rent Control (or lack of it) in the Los Angeles Area
- America's Maltreatment of US Soldiers
- School Health Cuts
- Navigating LA's Bureaucracy
- Heavy Rains in LA Area, ONce Again, Causing Havoc ...
- Hackers Threaten Scientology Through the Internet
- Museum Raid
- Rapper Named in Gang Crackdown in Compton
- Typhus on Rise in Orange County
- Documentary About LA Gangs
- Gang Violence at Birthday Party
- Indiana Man Charged With Arson on Catalina Island
- Mall Lockdown
- A Director in the Sheriff's Dept. is Stripped of h...
- Disturbing Scenes at Orange County Jail
- LA Prosecutors Deliberately Perjured Themselves in...
- Foreclosures on the Rise
- Gang Members Arrested for Killing 23 Day Old Baby ...
- Unsafe Bigrigs in LA
- Unauthorized Photos of Teen Water Polo Players End...
- A Plan to Alleviate the Water Shortage in Southern...
- End of LA's Airport Committee?
- Man Arrested in Illegal Dog-Fighting Case
- Tackling Crime and Homelessness on Skid Row
- Anti-Semitism in Tarzana
- Slumlord Pleads "No Contest"
- Prominent Fashion Mogul Charged with Sexual Harass...
- Strong Winds Causing Havoc in Southern California
- Dismal Sales Shutter Stores
- Hospital Dumping
- Safety Lapses at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
- The Most Recent Casualty From Iraq
- Safety at MacArthur Park
- Showdown Between Bush and Environmentalists
- Foster Kids Being Forced Out of Their Homes at 18
- Fatal Fight
- Federal Regulations May Damage the Cruise Ship Ind...
- Santa Monica "Regulating" Free Speech
- Golden Globe Awards Cancelled
- Cedars-Sinai Hospital Medical Lapses
- Orange County and the Sex Trade
- Writers Strike Might Put a Damper on the Oscars
- Hollywood Actors to Steer Clear of Golden Globe Aw...
- Happenings in Orange County
- Other LA Crime
- Homicide Report
- Rain Storm in California
- Police in Long Beach Still See No Motive for New Y...
- Schools Vandalized
- LA Area Population Statistics for 2007
- Indicted Orange County Sheriff Says He'll Return t...
- Trouble Ahead for the Ports of Los Angeles and Lon...
- Rogue Police Officers Go to Trial for Staging Home...
- The First Murder in the New Year
- Hispanic vs. Black Gangs
- Tackling LA's Problems
- Torture in LA Jails?
- Driving Becoming a Nightmare on Highland Ave.
- Heavy Rainstorm to Occur in the Southland
-
▼
January
(76)
1 comment:
Bad News, I tried to find your Email to ask you some questions about this project.
please contact me at:
hebrish@gmail.com
Thanks!
Post a Comment