Category Archives: Journalism & Media

The Significance of Obama and “Choom”

So, conservatives: explain to me why Obama’s pot-smoking youth is any more fair game than Romney’s jerkism at prep school. Continue reading

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Anderson Cooper vs. “Human Barbie”: A Double-cross Masquerading As Integrity

Anderson Cooper was no hero after all. Continue reading

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Insidious Bias: CNN’s “Question of the Day”

OK, I really mean it this time: no more Carol Costello! Continue reading

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Hurray for the “O!” in “The Star Spangled Banner,” And The Man Who Put It There

A sportswriter is offended by a tradition from Baltimore. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Continue reading

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Racism, the Media, and Reverend Wright Distortions

No, the Rev. Wright issue is not racist, Just pointless. Continue reading

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Recipe Rationalizations

It takes a little courage and determination to be honest in accepting the fact that an individual you like, supported and trusted is in fact untrustworthy, but being able to muster the integrity to apply identical standards for wrongdoing and dishonesty to all and foe is basic ethics. Continue reading

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Ethically Confounding Quote of the Year (Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck Division): The Washington Post

Just what is this statement supposed to tell us? Continue reading

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Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Ethics Train Wreck Update: An Integrity Test For The Lynch Mob

OK Al, Spike, Maxine…what do you have to say now? Continue reading

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Editor, Plagiarist and Ethics Dunce Extraordinaire Robert Ripley Meets His Worst Nightmare…

A plagiarizing editor is caught, exposed and shamed by an ethical blogger. Wonderful! Continue reading

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Chris Matthews Gets A Lesson On The Golden Rule

Another expert felled by Jeopardy! Continue reading

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