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When everything is a crisis, nothing is
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

When everything is a crisis, nothing is

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project How many crises does Colorado have? I don’t know that I can count them all for you, but to give you a sense, I did a Google site search for four major Colorado media outlets: The Denver Gazette, Colorado Politics, CPR, and Colorado Sun. If you’re curious to tool around in there, you’ll find the searches linked below in that same order. We apparently are beset by crises. A quick survey through the first four links below shows a climate crisis, a budget crisis, a Colorado River crisis, a mental health crisis, a healthcare crisis, a childcare crisis — the list goes on. I am not surprised by advocates and politicians using the word crisis. The fifth link below is to Senator Hickenlooper’s Twitter feed and, sure e...
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Selective scrutiny: Are Colorado journalists choosing who gets held accountable?
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Complete Colorado, Approved, Commentary, State

Selective scrutiny: Are Colorado journalists choosing who gets held accountable?

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Complete Colorado In a recent LinkedIn post, local Colorado media mascot animal Kyle Clark proclaimed, “Journalists just repeating what the powerful say isn’t news. And it’s not Next [Clark’s news magazine Next on 9News]. Next holds power to account, offering context and clarity that cut through spin and misinformation. It’s time for truth.” Not too long after putting on his emphatic face and making his bold statement, Clark recorded a Next segment where I think it’s reasonable to say he didn’t quite hit his own mark.  In the segment, Clark amplified a piece written by Logan Davis of the Colorado Times Recorder (CTR) entitled  “EXCLUSIVE: Secret ICE Detention Facilities Exist Around Colorado, Data Shows.”  The N...
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Follow the funding: Commentary examines Gary Community Ventures media grants and Colorado Sun coverage
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Follow the funding: Commentary examines Gary Community Ventures media grants and Colorado Sun coverage

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project An example of the coverage Gary Community Ventures (GCV) supported This post is a continuation of a series on the media grants issued by Gary Community Ventures. The first link below is to Monday’s newsletter, the previous installment. It will have a link to the first installment in it. In today’s post, I want to look at the coverage that GCV paid for, specifically the efforts by the progressive outlet Colorado Sun. In previous posts, I mentioned how the Colorado Sun raised their hand when GCV asked if anyone would like grant money to fund coverage on childcare in Colorado. I also mentioned how the Colorado Media Project (CMP, and some of its consultants like journalism professor Corey H...
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Like vampires, much of the media fails to reflect
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Like vampires, much of the media fails to reflect

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Like vampires, many in the media fail to reflect. Somehow or another I ended up on the mailing list for the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). I guess I should take it as a compliment. Thing is, I'm not a pro. This is more avocation than vocation.I got an email recently outlining a program the group intends to undertake to try and improve trust in the media. It's a collaboration between the Colorado SPJ, the Colorado Broadcasters Association, and the Colorado Press Association which they're calling their "Journalism Awareness Curriculum".I'll let them explain it in their own words by quoting from the email."The goal is to train Colorado journalists to deliver presentations to non-journalists about wh...
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How a CPR survey of 400 Coloradans on illegal immigration became “statewide opinion”
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Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

How a CPR survey of 400 Coloradans on illegal immigration became “statewide opinion”

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project CPR’s media malpractice To say that CPR’s coverage leans left is to say that the sky is blue. The CPR article linked first below didn’t just lean left, however. It was so noteworthy for getting some basics so wrong that it merits the title media malpractice. There was a recent article by CPR which questioned (I think you could probably go as far as to use the verb “downplayed”) claims by ICE that their agents are facing more and more assaults and threats. That article is linked second below for your perusal. This more recent article, the one linked first below and by a different reporter, follows that earlier effort thematically by focusing largely on what they (the reporters and those interviewed) see as e...
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D-11 takes on media trust crisis with new high school journalism course
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D-11 takes on media trust crisis with new high school journalism course

By Debbie Kelley | Denver Gazette With longstanding principles of objectivity, truth and fairness in news reporting up for debate in recent years, a homegrown Career and Technical Education course launching in Colorado Springs School District 11 for the fall semester will explore such topics under an overarching theme of “ethics in journalism.” So while juniors and seniors receive real-world training in broadcast, podcast, video and print media creation and production, they'll also be schooled on how to do it all by “upholding the highest standards of journalistic integrity,” said course founder Chaim Goldman. He’s also the executive producer and host of The Peak News, a “hyper-local news” radio show that’s on hiatus from the airwaves over the summer. In May 2024...
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