Paul Hunter Zaid
Online Journalism
Journal #10
4/22/2015
1) Education officials fine for-profit college for false claims
I read this article shortly before the class email regarding the Buzzfeed story. I discovered this article on my homepage-Yahoo.com.
The Education Department said it will fine Heald College $30 million, alleging the Corinthian Colleges subsidiary engaged in misconduct and misled students. Corinthian, a massive for-profit educational institution, collapsed last summer amid a cash shortage and fraud allegations. The department alleged that Heald, based in San Francisco, had shown a pattern of falsifying post-graduation employment data
Under the terms of the Education Department’s loan program, the government could pursue claims against Corinthian for any student debt it forgives due to Corinthian’s misconduct. In the case of Corinthian, however, that may not do much good. Most of the company’s assets have been sold, and Corinthian’s once billion-dollar stock is virtually worthless.
http://news.yahoo.com/education-officials-fine-profit-college-false-claims-230730108–politics.html
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2) Sony Hack: WikiLeaks Publishes More Than 30,000 Documents
I love a good hacking, especially when it details how companies and governments truly operate. On Thursday, April 16, 2015, WikiLeaks published more than 30,000 documents and 170,000 emails from Sony Pictures, obtained from a hack that has been sourced to North Korea in anticipation of the studio’s release of The Interview.
The Julian Assange website noted in a press release that “whilst some stories came out at the time, the original archives, which were not searchable, were removed before the public and journalists were able to do more than scratch the surface.”
In a move that could trigger another round of embarrassing prying into Sony affairs, WikiLeaks has now published those documents in a searchable format.
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/sony-hack-wikileaks-publishes-more-than-30-000-116577039377.html
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3) The Worst Jobs For 2015
I always enjoy reading this yearly article as I’ve had some of these jobs, as well as I over heard this mentioned in one of my classes this week.
The lists used to appear in two different publications owned by The Wall Street Journal. The ranking of America’s best and worst jobs started back in 1988, when two doctoral students at the University of Wisconsin, working under the direction of career book author Les Krantz, assembled the first list, ambitiously evaluating the 200 most populous jobs in the U.S. Three jobs stuck out to me from the article: Newspaper reporter, broadcaster, and photojournalist.
The editor has come up with a formula that takes into account a range of considerations, from what they call emotional factors like the degree of competitiveness and the amount of public contact (both viewed as negatives), to physical demands including crawling, stooping and bending and work conditions like toxic fumes and noise. In addition to income and growth potential in the field, they look at what they call stress factors, like the amount of travel the job requires, deadlines, and physical risks like whether the workers’ or their colleagues’ lives are put at risk on the job.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/worst-jobs-2015-080000003.html
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Problematic Piece:
Jack White Plans A Break From Touring After Five Shows
http://pagesix.com/2015/04/15/jack-white-plans-break-from-touring-after-five-shows/
I religiously read New York Post and I know that people rip on it. I’m originally from Minnesota so I’m very aware of the upper Midwest states and cities, but obviously the reporter who listed the cities where Jack White will be giving concerts for $3 a ticket has their knowledge of the Dakota’s incorrect. The reporter listed this piece:
In 2007, the White Stripes canceled their fall tour, citing acute anxiety suffered by Meg White. Performances scrubbed included dates in Boise, Idaho; Rapid City, North Dakota; Fargo, South Dakota; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Rapid City and Fargo are listed in the opposite Dakota state of which they actually exist: Fargo is in North Dakota, and Rapid City is in South Dakota.
Minor oversight, but nonetheless just goes to show you how easily it is to overlook something, and a great way to get misinform readers and irritate those who reside in those two cities.
Media Bias
The New York Times was a little too excited in an April 10 editorial, which blasted the annual NRA meeting in Nashville for banning working guns. They wrote:
No Firing Pins, Please, as the N.R.A. Gathers
Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday in Tennessee, and not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot. After all the NRA propaganda about how ‘good guys with guns’ are needed to be on guard across American life, from elementary schools to workplaces, the weekend’s gathering of disarmed conventioneers seems the ultimate in hypocrisy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/opinion/no-firing-pins-please-as-the-nra-gathers.html?_r=0
While that may sound like hypocrisy to the gun control crowd and the Times‘ editorial board, that is dead wrong.
Attendees were required to follow all federal, state and local laws applicable to the host city. In Nashville, firearms are allowed in the main convention venue, the Music City Center, with a proper license.
The Times did run the following correction, but failed to apologize for incorrectly calling the NRA hypocrites. Although an editorial is the editor(s)’ opinion, it is important that the facts/details included are correct. Editorials are meant to influence public opinion. Accuracy is essential if journalism is to inform the public debate.
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