Tag Archives: deceit
Yes, I Am An Idiot. That Doesn’t Make It Ethical To Take Advantage of Me.
I fell for an online marketing scam, and I’m not going to forget it. Continue reading
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The Deceitful, Illogical, Unethical Disclaimer
My rules: any company or organization (that means you, PETA!) that uses a celebrity or another organization by name in its ads or promotional materials should be presumed to be untrustworthy, and any company or organization that employs a “pay no attention to the obvious implications of everything that you read, heard or saw before this” disclaimer is probably untrustworthy as well. Continue reading
Filed under Business & Commercial, Journalism & Media, Literature
Word Use Ethics
Ah, politics! Words that are dishonest are winked at by the media without objection, and harmless terms generate apologies that support ignorance and vagueness. Continue reading
Fact Checker Ethics, Part II: Validating Deceit, and Practicing It Too
In its review of Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler’s shameful refusal to call the Democratic dissembling on Social Security, Ethics Alarms saved the best—which is to say, worst—for last. Continue reading
Fact Checker Ethics: Alibis For Obama, Part I
Maybe the Post can install a fact-checker for its fact-checker, at least when the Obama Administration’s deceit and deception on Social Security is being examined. Continue reading
Filed under Finance, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Leadership, U.S. Society
More Than a Fool: Bachmann, John Quincy Adams, and Wikipedia
In one short week since the controversy erupted over Fox News anchor Chris Wallace daring to ask her on the air, “Are you a flake?” and her subsequent botching of both her answer and the question’s fevered aftermath, Rep. Christine Bachmann has stumbled into two flaky episodes. One—her mixing up Western movie star icon John Wayne with serial child killer John Wayne Gacy—was at least funny. The other, far less forgivable—her claim that the Founding Fathers “worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States”—has signature significance. Continue reading
White House Mendacity on Libya
The Obama Administration’s argument that the Resolution doesn’t apply isn’t even legalistic nonsense—it’s just dishonest nonsense of the kind that the President of the United Sates should not indulge in, to Congress, to the media, to the public, to anyone. Continue reading
Ethics Malpractice from “Dear Margo”: The Tale of Witchy, Tubby and Sue
A shallow questioner who dumped her boyfriend wants to unravel his new relationship now that he’s gone from fat to fit. And an advice columnist is happy to help out…. Continue reading
Comment of the Day: “CNN, Burying the News to Protect Its Own”
In the Comment of the Day, Dwayne N. Zechman comments usefully on the Ethics Alarms post about CNN ignoring the developing story about its own talk show host, Piers Morgan. Continue reading →
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