Tag Archives: breach of trust

December 14, 2011

The Twin Cities, Cheating CitizensTo Balance Their Budgets

Once a city has proven that it will steal from its citizens, what’s left? Continue reading →

Filed under Citizenship, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, U.S. Society

Tagged as breach of trust, car auctions, deception, Kathleen Wuorinen, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Minnesota, notice, police, scams, St. Paul, theft

August 19, 2011

A Batboy Sells Out His Heroes

The recurrent theme from the media’s commentators, which I heard repeated on CNN this morning as it hosted Castillo in his book-hawking efforts (in this case he told an embarrassing anecdote about Yankee catcher Jose Posada) is that “Castillo is able to divulge Yankee secrets in his new memoir because he was part of the last group of batboys who did not have to sign confidentiality agreements.” This is accurate, but wrong. It is also typical of what passed today as journalistic ethics. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Etiquette and manners, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society, Workplace

Tagged as baseball, breach of trust, celebrity, discretion, embarassment, greed, Luis Castillo, New York Yankees, Robert McElwaine, tell-all books, trust, trust secrets

April 9, 2011

The Irresponsible Dr. Oz, Softening The Public Up for Charlatans

Dr.Oz has pronounced John Edward, the TV psychic, legitimate. We call this medical TV talk show host malpractice. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Family, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Religion and Philosophy, Research and Scholarship, Science & Technology

Tagged as "Scientific American", "The Amazing Kreskin", "The Mentalist", "The Sixth Sense", alternative medicine, breach of trust, charlatans, cold reading, David Gorski, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Oz, Dr. Wallace Sampson, duty of due diligence, faith healing, grief, gullibility, Harry Houdini, hubris, James Randi, John Edward, laziness, Lisa Williams, Matt Lauer, mediums, National Council Against Health Fraud, Oprah Winfrey, psychics, responsibility, scam, skeptic, Steve Salermo, Summerlin Hospital, The Today Show, trust

January 30, 2011

If Teachers Cheat, What Will Students To Do?

cheating by teachers is infinitely worse than cheating by students, and being taught by cheating teachers greatly increases the likelihood that students will become part of a culture of dishonesty. Continue reading →

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Filed under Education, Government & Politics, Professions, U.S. Society

Tagged as Atlanta, breach of trust, cheating, coaching, corruption, culture, David Schutten, DeKalb County, ethics, Goddard School of Science and Technology, honesty, Jack L. Foley, Massachusetts, Melissa Dillon, Organization of DeKalb Educators, principals, professionalism, Secondary schools, teachers, test scores, trust, trustworthiness, Worchester

December 27, 2010

Campaign Contributions During Key Votes: Call It Bribery

It isn’t just earmarks our patriotic representatives on Capitol Hill are auctioning off, but the laws themselves. Continue reading →

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Filed under Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership

Tagged as accountability, breach of trust, bribery, Congress, corruption, cynicism, dishonesty, earmarks, ethics, House Ethics Committee, influence peddling, lies, lobbying, PMA Group, quid pro quo, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Sen. Max Baucus, U.S. House of Representatives, United States Senate

December 11, 2010

Bill Clinton’s Unethical Fun at the Expense of Obama’s Presidency

Clinton should have known Obama had put himself at risk, and he if he cared about any one or any thing but Bill Clinton, he would have helped the President out by not exploiting the situation. Continue reading →

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Filed under Government & Politics, History, Journalism & Media, Leadership

Tagged as Andrew Jackson, betrayal, Bill Clinton, breach of trust, caring, charisma, confidence, consideration, egomania, exploitation, fun, leadership instincts, Martin Van Buren, power, President Obama, President William Howard Taft, public faith, respect, Teddy Roosevelt, the Presidency

September 29, 2010

Chris Plante and the Cupcakes: Why You Can’t Trust Talk Show Hosts

I don’t know who the public is supposed to trust to give them both all sides of news stories and undistorted facts, it sure isn’t Chris Plante and his fellow talk show hosts. Continue reading →

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Tagged as "The Daily Show", bias, bigotry, breach of trust, Chris Plante, conservative talk radio, deception, Gallup poll, gays, honesty, Indianapolis, integrity, Jon Stewart, journalistic ethics, Just Cookies, lies, news media, trust, trustworthiness