'Journalism' awards scandal with NPR program notes media bias concerns

Rupert Murdoch noted media types are obsessed with awards, turns out a host for a multi-award winning NPR program has received 'at least $1.3 million' in payments from drug companies (which he initially denied).

• (Sidebar--Wade Boggs was on the program, The Infinite Mind in 1998 about the art of hitting).

Psychiatrist and radio host Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin's

• "...radio programs have often touched on subjects important to the commercial interests of the companies for which he consults....

"“The Infinite Mind” is a weekly program that has won more than 60 journalism awards over 10 years and bills itself as “

• public radio’s most honored and listened to health and science program.” It has more than one million listeners in more than 300 radio markets."

The program also ran on Sirius satellite radio but will be discontinued.

• On media bias from the NY Times article:

"Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said that although

• concerns about media bias are growing,

• few people

• believe

that journalists take money from those they cover. Disclosures like those surrounding Dr. Goodwin could change that,

• “so this kind of thing
• is very damaging,” Mr. Rosenstiel said."

via Poynter.org/Romenesko

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