Tag Archives: conservative talk radio
Blood Libel Ethics and the U.S. News Media’s Integrity Dead End
The news media’s self-destructive obsession with discrediting Sarah Palin has reached its ethical nadir, and with it any reasonable hope that U.S. journalism, as currently practiced, will be returning to credibility and respectability within the foreseeable future. Continue reading
Ethics Final For Barack Obama
If the President emulates his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, using the massacre in Arizona as a political wedge the way Clinton used the Oklahoma City bombing—if he adopts the philosophy of former Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emmanuel that one should never waste a crisis—then we will know the dispiriting truth about Barack Obama. Continue reading
On the Post-Shooting Finger-Pointing Apology Watch
The list of supposedly responsible commentators and elected officials who engaged in this is too long to compile, but everyone should take note of which of them has the integrity and the honesty not only to apologize to those they smeared and the public they willfully misled, but also to pledge never to do something like this again. Continue reading
Filed under Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Leadership, The Internet, U.S. Society
Disrespect for a Sacred Document
Thank goodness seven-year-olds don’t read the New York Times or watch CNN, for they would be left with the impression that one large segment of the American media and political class has a cynical disregard for the document that underlies America’s values and culture, and that made the nation’s astonishing success and achievements possible. Continue reading
Drudge, Obama’s “$200 Million a Day Trip” and How The U.S. Public Gets Stupid
The public is not stupid, but it is often wretchedly misinformed by a news media that has lost most of its scruples and a lot of its professionalism. Once a rumor, misconception, distortion or myth gets enough publicity, it can lodge itself in people’s brains like shrapnel.
We should all thank Matt Drudge for giving us a wonderful lesson on how this happens. Continue reading
Filed under U.S. Society
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
Chris Plante and the Absurd, Illogical, and Ubiquitous “Favorite Child” Rationalization
Welcome to the “Favorite Child” rationalization. This irritating, hypocritical and illogical argument is less a true rationalization than it is a childish deflection of accountability and a last-ditch, desperation defense when one is out of excuses. It is especially popular in the political arena, and practiced with special shamelessness by pundits like Chris Plante. Continue reading
“Let the Buyer Beware”? How about “Let the Seller Be Fair” and “Let the Pitchman Beware”?
Some developments in the ghastly realm of false advertising…and some conclusions. Continue reading
“No Tolerance” For Adversary Free Speech at Obama’s HHS?
Keep a sharp eye on the media for a liberal blogger, columnist or TV commentator that has the integrity and courage to take H.H.S. and Sec. Sibelius to task for behaving like an Iron Curtain thug. That will be someone you can trust. Continue reading
Ethics Alarms Presents “The Mosquies”…the Best and Worst of the “Ground Zero Mosque” Ethics Train Wreck
The “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy is an epic “ethics train wreck” that has spread its destruction far and wide, across regional, ideological and national borders, leaving confusion, misunderstanding and bad feelings in its wake. Now is as good a time as any to take stock of the situation, and to recognize those who have distinguished themselves during the carnage, for good or ill. To this end, Ethics Alarms presents its first annual (and hopefully last ever) awards for outstanding ethical and unethical conduct during the whole mess, “The Mosquies.” Continue reading
