Charles, Camilla rent yacht in eco-friendly move
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It also elicited scathing criticism. I filed one of them (Austin Whitten) to focus on what The Globe is doing – printing PR releases without comment – and another on the issue itself.

Are we seeing lazy journalism at G & M or perhaps something else. There is a current school of journalism that thinks generating controversy by printing outrageous statements is ‘good’ reporting, i.e., good for selling papers. This comes from the same ‘villain-victim’ model journos are encouraged to follow, i.e., every story must have a ‘villain and a ‘victim’, again, to enhance sales. This is what journalism has descended to and why polls show journalists are below used car salesmen these days in popularity. What do you think?

It tries to rate the news based on journalistic quality — keeping journalists and news organizations accountable. Might actually be a good tool to teach media literacy to students.