An industry based around the concept that its product is above reproach as the unique agenda-setter for its community of consumers (in this case, readers), produced by individuals trained to think of themselves as having the ability to become at-will experts on any subject (reporters, of course), is apt to hit the wall when faced with a wholesale changing of the ground rules.
Holograms stay on message or have to answer pesky, off-the-subject reporter questions.
Thus, the interpretation reports are subject to reporter bias, with an unknown possibility of inconsistent diagnoses and errors.
A funny thing about journalism is that it's contingent upon the willful participation of a subject; a reporter always needs a reliable, talkative source.
He brings to his subject a reporter's healthy skepticism and an old India hand's stubborn fascination with the subcontinent and its people.
So far nine essays have been published on the "blotter," most recently an article by Lawrence Stelter about the demolition of the Third Avenue El in 1955 (a subject this reporter explored in the City section in 2005).
The off-the-record meeting, Burt said, allowed subject and reporter to connect in a low-pressure setting that ended up helping both.
He dealt with rumors of suspected heroin abuse, something that had already been reported by another outlet before Lipsky's interview and, according to the movie, a subject the reporter had been instructed to grill him on.
Furthermore, the current study relied on information collected from semi-structured interviews, and may have been subject to reporter bias.
Although more young people claim to be using condoms now than in the mid 1990s, these statistics may be subject to reporter bias and need to be looked at against the incidence of STIs and pregnancy rates.
Those comments were clearly related to Mr. Clinton's affair with a White House intern, a subject that reporters had broached.
