Who Decides "Journalism" and "Journalist"?
Carla Axtman - BlueOregon
A rather fascinating situation has developed in Lake Oswego over who gets to cover work done in City Council Executive Session meetings, and who doesn't.
Rebecca Randall, The Portland Trib
Recently, a media and government work group drew up a potential model policy defining who is a journalist, and therefore allowed to attend closed-door city council meetings — called executive sessions. The work group came together in reaction to a policy first written by Lake Oswego City Attorney David Powell after a blogger attempted to attend an executive session.
Read Full Blue Oregon Article
Read Rebecca Randall's Full Portland Tribune Report
8 comments:
Dont have to read it to know your site will never be considered legitimate anything!!
"Anonymous said...
Dont have to read it to know your site will never be considered legitimate anything!!"
Some very interesting questions raised.
You really ought to read it "Anonym".
Come on folks!
Criticizing the "Media Worthiness" of any site other than this site causes us to stoop to the same level of the criticism doesn't it?
The only judge that is really important, relative to who attends CCBofC Executive Sessions, is CCBofC and their ethic and responsibility in selecting who does so is it not?
So, if Executive Sessions are confidential,why even allow media agencies anyway?
Oregon Public Meeting Law Guidelines states:"Governing bodies are allowed to exclude the public -- but generally not the media -- from the discussion of
certain subjects. These meetings are called executive sessions." Note it says only "Generally not the media"? and not that the media must be allowed into Ececutive Sessions?
Vermont says of Executive Session that "The Media" must only be notified of what the Executive Session is to be about.
But, then the oregon Public Meeting Guidelines contradicts itself, in essence, by stating:"Media representatives must be allowed to attend executive sessions, with three execptions. Media may be excluded from:
• Strategy discussions with labor negotiators
• Meetiings to consider expulsion of a student or to discuss students' confidential medical records.
• Meetings to consult with counsel"
News media - Definition
The news media is a term used to describe print media (newspapers, magazines); broadcast media (radio stations, television stations, television networks), and often Internet-based media (World Wide Web pages, weblogs).
Usually the term includes all working journalists and is often used by those who would make generalizations about the product of "most" journalists, for example that journalists who work for large media corporations, or who are based in New York City or Washington, D.C, harbor a liberal (or conservative) bias.
Criticism of the term
The term, however, has been criticized because the "news media" do not operate as a single entity, which tends to attribute a wide range of media phenomena to one label.
Post a Comment