COMMENTARY BY AL TOMPKINS
Video Of Memphis Police’s ‘Excessive Force’ Against Tyre Nichols Is Coming. What Should News Outlets Show?
The video will certainly be graphic. Journalists should be prepared to explain why they chose to show or withhold it.
COMMENTARY BY AL TOMPKINS
What KTVU Did Right After Its Slip-Up
It was great sport all last weekend for media critics to excoriate KTVU-TV in San Francisco for its announcement of fake, offensive pilot names in the Asiana Airlines crash. There’s no denying KTVU made a big mistake. But when admitting to its mistakes, the station took an approach that other journalists should replicate.
