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The “Your Right To Engage in Ignorant and Dangerous Speech Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Unethical For Me To Help It Be As Loud As Possible” Dept.: ABC Full Circle and WordPress

As the New Year dawns, we see two companies in the communications business, and two situations raising the question, is it ethical or unethical to allow someone to use your product or service to broadcast harmful speech? Continue reading

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The Attack of the Grievance Bullies Continues…on “Napoleon Dynamite”???

At least Damon Fowlercould claim to be upholding a Constitutional principle, and at least he had to be in the audience for the prayer he blocked, giving him standing to object. The word-police in the disabilities community had no such excuses. They used their muscle to stop others from enjoying a film in the park, because they objected to one word in the movie, even though they didn’t have to hear it. Continue reading

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Ethics Dunce: NBC

NBC’s failure to report the G.E. tax story is either grossly negligent or an outright cover-up. Either way, it is an ethical disgrace. Continue reading

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Wildlife Documentary Deception

Great. CNN and NBC weren’t enough: now we can’t trust the National Geographic channel and Animal Planet. Continue reading

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It’s Ethics Dunce vs Ethics Dunce, as the DNC Condemns Fox For Not Giving Most Of Its PAC Money To Democrats, Like Objective Media Companies Do

Apparently the definition of “objective” adopted by the Democratic Party is that if a media company gives money to the Republicans, then it is an unreliable, propaganda-spewing fraud. If it gives to the Democrats, though, that’s just being reasonable. Continue reading

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The Ethics Of Ending Public Broadcasting

The seeming inability of elected officials and politicians to deal with basic decisions involving responsibility, prudence, accountability and honesty is coming into sharp focus as yet another debate over taxpayer-funded public broadcasting on PBS and NPR gets underway. Colorado Congressman … Continue reading

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The F.T.C. vs. the Singing Pirate’s Not-So-Free Credit Reports

The government is running TV commercials designed to look like the commercials that try to confuse consumers into using a costly credit service rather than the government’s free service. Continue reading

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