Is the media responsible for the Jackie hoax panic?
In a news analysis piece today on Michigan Messenger, I explored this issue through interviews with Bonnie Bucqueroux, retired director of the Victims and the Media Program at Michigan State University’s School of Journalism, and members of Michigan Positive Action Coalition. You can check the story out here.
What’s interesting, is MI POZ sent around their press release to the mainstream media on Monday. The response was: “This doesn’t matter because it was a hoax.”
In fact, I forward the MI POZ release to a reporter at the Detroit Free Press who responded back by diverting attention from her own lack of reporting to the reporters who proceeded her. How about some accountability, here folks?
To that end, I gotta give MLive.com credit for highlighting the post as a top link of the day.
[...] stark contrast to the response of the vast majority of mainstream media outlets and criticism of their handling of the Jackie Braxton HIV YouTube Hoax, Darrell Dawsey at TIME [...]