Earlier today, Paul Lukasiak
wrote a guest post on Taylor Marsh that questioned the journalistic standards of Celeste Fremon, who worked on the Hillary Clinton/MoveOn.org story for The Huffington Post in coordination with OnTheBus. A sample of the post:
Celeste Fremon claims to be a professional journalist. As a professional journalist, she is affiliated with USC’s Annenberg School of Communication – in other words, this “journalist” is affiliated with an academic institution that is supposed to impart journalistic ethics upon its students, and whose affiliates, one assumes, display the highest level of ethics and intellectual honesty possible.
Clearly, Celeste Fremon should be considered an embarrassment to the Annenberg School, and subjected to an inquiry regarding her posting of this kind of pure tripe not just in public, but on a website that is part of USC Annenberg’s “Institute for Justice and Journalism” called: Witness LA: Street News, Views, and Stories of Justice and Injustice. Fremon is not merely committing journalistic malpractice at HuffPo, she is also doing so at a sight controlled by USC’s “Journalism” School.
I doubt that much can be done about HuffingtonPost and what I believe is an atrocious lack of ethics – clearly, the progressive movement that we thought was based on simple human decency, standards of conduct, and ethical reporting does not exist except for in a few islands of sanity.
Paul also urged Taylor's readers to contact three people associated with the Annenberg School to investigate Celeste Fremon's alleged lack of journalistic integrity and ethics. Afterward, Karma delivered a dose of reality to Taylor Marsh in the form of a reply from Jay Rosen of OnTheBus:
Taylor: Paul's post above is wrong in what it suggests about OffTheBus and Huffington Post and the Celeste Fremon article. One part in particular is not true. Paul Lukasiak wrote: "Off the Bus had apparently been offered the piece and been turned down, after OTB had published Fowler's piece the previous week. It's not too much to speculate that Rosen smelled a rat, and when that rat appeared in public, he ran away from it as quickly as possible." That is not so. We didn't turn the piece down; we cooperated with Huffington Post in its production, which is what the piece says: "This story was developed in cooperation with OffTheBus to which reporter Celeste Fremon is a regular contributor." No, I didn't smell a rat, and I don't believe there is any rat. Paul's speculation simply got out of hand. I told him I could not give him the answers he was seeking about how the piece was edited and framed because the piece was produced for publication by the Huffington Post team, which employs reporters and editors for its politics section. That was not an attempt to disassociate OffTheBus from the publication of Fremon's article, which is a legitimate piece of journalism. (It also ran in the OffTheBus section.) I would appreciate if you would update Paul's original post by appending this to it. Thank you.
I guess it's not just Hillary that has a bad habit of vetting their sources or whining about the mainsteam media's treatment of her. It's important to point out that Taylor did not author the post herself, but it is ultimately her responsibility to check the facts before publishing a "story".
And this "journalist" wants a show on Air America Radio...:rofl:
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