Mayhill Fowler: citizen hero or villain?

Beckett, Charlie (2008) Mayhill Fowler: citizen hero or villain? POLIS: journalism and society at the LSE (20 Jun 2008). Website.

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An acquaintance is married to someone high up on the US political blog website Huffington Post which has made waves in the US elections with its “citizen reporters”. Apparently, the HuffPost senior editors were very conflicted about reporting a story that was damaging to Obama – the man they clearly backed for the candidacy. That in itself raises questions about the Huffpost’s claims to be opening up a new form of more accountable news media.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/
Additional Information:	© 2008 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited:	23 May 2017 09:26
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 16:18
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/78331

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