Why won't professional journalists embrace transparency?
The crew at PowerLine have noted that quite a few professional journalists have been asking to interview conservative talker Hugh Hewitt, because he worked with Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the White House.
Interestingly, though, the journalists refuse truly to go on the record by conducting their interviews on Hewitt's radio program, so that normal folks can actually compare what the journalists write versus what Hewitt says in its full context.
Locally, we'd like the Houston Chronicle to take advantage of its partnership with KHOU-11 and put up full audio/video of editorial board meetings with politicians and others -- instead of acting as gatekeepers who selectively report those meetings in order to boost an agenda.
We think transparency would force the editorial board to be more professional and become more informed.
Perhaps when reader representative James T. Campbell is done contemplating his newspaper's coverage of women's professional basketball and defending his newspaper's not wholly accurate use of the term "insurgents" rather than "terrorists" (or was that post simply a chance to take potshots at Fox News and conservative ideologues?) to describe militants who increasingly target civilians, he can address our proposal.
Indeed, since Mr. Campbell laments in his latest post having to debate ideology rather than journalism (never mind that many choices at the newspaper seem to reflect an ideology that isn't at all neutral), we would think he'd welcome the opportunity to address our non-ideological proposal for more transparency for the editorial board.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/30/05 01:13 PM | Houston Chronicle | Print | Comments (1)
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