Atkins, who was not involved in creating churnalism.com, uses spoof stories to highlight the failure of journalists to corroborate stories.
An article in Business Day yesterday about an effort by the Newspaper Association of America to make amends for the failure of journalists to help European Jewish colleagues during the Holocaust misstated the given name of the organization's chairman, who plans to discuss the issue at a convention in April.
As Columbia Journalism Review's Kyle Pope wrote on the day after the election, the failure of journalists to fully understand and accurately cover Donald Trump's rise to power was our "anti-Watergate" moment.
Unfortunately, the failure of journalists and others to use active language to describe who is doing what to whom, as well as their hesitation to use gender-specific language to talk about men and boys as the perpetrators of sexual violence, make it next to impossible to hold male (and female) leaders accountable for addressing these problems forthrightly.
But the upshot is clear: Jihad; torture; suicide bombings; terrible things done by and to American soldiers; official secrets and government lies; the failures and responsibilities of journalists, politicians, law enforcement officials and ordinary citizens in the face of terror — such matters will be hard to avoid in movie theaters between now and Christmas.
Was that a failure of the journalists who were present?
He explained this "media war" in terms of the failure of British journalists to investigate the death of Diana, the 7/7 bombings and the Whitehall sex abuse scandal.
Indeed, many now argue that the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq is as much about the failure of American journalists to do their jobs as it is about sabre-rattling on the part of the military, and that Moore emerged as one of the rare, valiant voices of dissent.
The failure of many journalists to understand that is the reason we get headlines every week saying things like "Labour up 3 points" or "Labour down 2 points" instead of more accurate but less interesting ones such as, "voters still think basically the same thing they did three month ago".
And then, within days, fellow journalists expressed reservations about his voyeur story; it was, as one widely shared piece had it, "a failure of journalistic ethics".
