Tag Archives: endorsements
Unethical Endorsement of the Month: Former Rep. Duke Cunningham
What does one call a political endorsement from someone everyone hates? Continue reading
Filed under Character, Government & Politics
TV Payola and the Shameless Alison Rhodes
Looks like consumer news, smells like payola. Continue reading
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
Dear ESPN: I Know She’s Hot, But Fire Erin Andrews
You did the right thing in early January, when one of your broadcasters abused a female colleague in a sexist manner, and that’s commendable. Still, don’t you know that what Erin Andrews did was far worse? Continue reading
Sunday Ethics Trio: CREW, Coercion and Condiments
http://nightly-daily.blogspot.com/2010/02/politics-of-ketchup.html Continue reading
Tiger Woods Ethics, Part I: Betrayal’s Not for Heroes
Tiger Woods is a professional role model and hero, and heroes can’t be scoundrels, phonies and jerks, in public, or in private. Continue reading
