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Subject: Al's Morning Meeting - BBC's Edit of Obama's Inauguration
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BBC's Edit of Obama's Inauguration Speech Raises Important Ethical
Questions 

The BBC's Newsnight show
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm>  recently
opened with what seemed like a single soundbite from President Barack
Obama's inauguration speech. As it turns out, the BBC used three
different parts of the inauguration speech and edited them together to
create the soundbite. In listening to the audio, it's not clear that it
had been edited.

After seeing the segment, the blog "Harmless Sky"
<http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=147>  raised questions about how
the BBC opened its show.  The subject got picked up by a watchdog Web
site called "Stinky Journalism," <http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/>
which contacted me for comments. This is a case that raises important
ethical questions for radio and TV stations and online news sites.

Read on to find out what was wrong with this particular edit and for
ethical guidelines related to audio editing. 

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<http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/12/social-media-2009.html> .

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City Governments Bailing Out Local Car Dealerships

Think of this as a Big Three bailout on a local level.

Marketplace Radio has reported
<http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/21/pm_auto_deale
rs/>  that small towns across the country are helping local car
dealerships that cannot get loans to keep operating.

Why would they do this? In towns such as Victorville, Calif
<http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/victorville_10446___article.html/bails
_car.html> ., sales tax from car sales contributes to half of the city's
sales tax income. If cars don't sell, the city, which has no property
tax, could lose its tax base.

Read on to find out how the auto industry downturn has affected African
Americans. 

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Figuring Out When, and How, Journalists Should Use Audio Slideshows

Pity the poor, humble slideshow, lost in the sea of video and multimedia
storytelling. But let's not chuck this now (gulp) older story form so
fast. Sometimes, it is just the right tool. The Boston Globe's Web site
recently produced a simple, quiet slideshow and audio feature
<http://www.boston.com/interactive/video/inauguration_interviews/?bclid=
8326187001>  that I don't think would have been as effective in the form
of a video. Take a look and read what Boston.com's editor, David Beard,
told me in this edited e-mail exchange:

Read on for the full interview ... 

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