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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.
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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
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2008
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February
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- 7 Shot and Injured at Bus Stop
- Rash of Robberies Hit California State University ...
- Gang Crackdown
- Fourth Suspect Arrested Over Gun Battle With Police
- Man Admits to Beheading Veteran Hollywood Screenwr...
- Michael Jackson's Ranch Foreclosed
- Two Theater Goers Who Were Watching a Horror Movie...
- Housing Prices Hit Steep Decline
- Lack of US Viewers for the Oscars
- Local Hospitals Becoming More Negligent
- Colombian Jewelry Theft Ring Operating in the San ...
- The Conflict Between Turks and Armenians Comes to ...
- 10 California Salons, Including 5 in the LA Area, ...
- Terrorism in the San Fernando Valley?
- Pasadena Church Hosts a Pro-Palestinian Anti-Semit...
- The Recent Murder at an Oxnard Junior High School ...
- According to one Critic, There are No Oscar-Worthy...
- Security Company President and Employee Indicted o...
- Cyber Pranksters
- Refugees From Last Year's Wildfires Still Have No ...
- 'Turf War' in LA City Hall Over How to Deal With G...
- Police Investigating Two Shootings, One of Which M...
- LAX Evacuated Over a Suspected Terrorist Threat
- USDA Recalls 143 Million Pounds of Tainted Beef
- Gang-Related Killing in Covina
- LA Gangs Infiltrate Paparazzi
- Writers Strike has Ended But...
- Victim of Junior High School Shooting Declared Bra...
- The Problem of Literary Authors Being Cheated by H...
- Home Sales in Southern California Hit 20-Year Low
- LAPD Accused of Failing to Investigate Complaints ...
- Spies for China
- The Foreclosure Crisis Also Affects Renters
- Director Spielberg Quits Olympics
- 50 Arrested in Child Care Fraud
- Man Kills His Entire Family and a Police Officer
- Aurthorities Step Up Raid Against Illegal Immigrants
- UCLA Professor's House Firebombed
- Party Cancelled
- 2 Teens Shot in Front of Elementary School
- Unease In and Around Hollywood
- Bacteria at Local Beaches
- Confusion at Local Voting Booths
- Orange County: A Beating Death of a Jail Inmate an...
- Block Party Turns Into a Riot
- No Happy Ending to the Writers Strike?
- Two Shot at Hollywood Nightclub
- Tenants and Landlords Fight Sex Offenders
- Threats Against the Church of Scientology
- Alhambra Teenager Latest Victim of Racial Violence...
- Gang Arrests in Moreno Valley
- Gang Leader Accused of Exporting Drugs from LA to ...
- Racial Violence in Monrovia
- Trailer Park Owners Accused of Unsafe Conditions
- Selling Prostitution on CraigsList
- "Village" for the Homeless in the Town of Ontario
- Tainted Meat in Schools
- More on the Hollywood Writers Strike
- Role of Women in Hollywood
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February
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1 comment:
Hmmmm. Very concerning. Perhaps we should look at sanctions against LA?
Meanwhile, everything is just swell here.
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