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Gotcha Nation
Every stupid mistake is not worth going crazy about. Proportion! Proportion! Continue reading
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The Third Annual Ethics Alarms Awards: The Worst of Ethics 2011 (Part 2)
The second and final part of the Ethics Alarms 2011 Worsts. The Bests will be here soon! Continue reading
Fox News Inveils the Unethical Poll of the Month AND Inspires a Fun New Pastime: “The Stupid Choices Game”
The news media is supposed to use polls to help explain what the public thinks and believes, not bolster what the media wants it to believe. I have never seen a poll so simultaneously incompetent, misleading, and simple-minded. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Fox News
By hiring disgraced governor Mark Sanford, Fox is brazenly putting notoriety above competence and trustworthiness as its priority, a per se breach of journalistic ethics. Continue reading
Civility and Integrity Tests For Democrats Are Not Going Well At All
At this point, I see a Democratic leadership that is willing to abandon civility, honor, fairness and integrity for votes. For anyone who believes that ethical government and responsible national leadership are important, attention must be paid. Continue reading
Some Post Iowa Debate Ethics Awards
The GOP pre-Iowa straw poll presidential debate last night earned a few ethics awards, with many more to come as we get to know these pretenders better. Continue reading
Attention FCC: What the News of the World Scandal Reveals About Rupert Murdoch
The News of the World scandal is the smoking gun of Murdoch’s ethical leadership. I know the sleazy tabloid is across the pond, but there are few clichés more inevitably true than “the fish rots from the head down.” In ethics, it is the leader that sets the standards. The Murdoch media empire does not merely foster an ethically shaky culture, not just an ethically-flawed culture, but a shameless culture that doesn’t value ethics at all. Continue reading
What Today’s Broadcast News Regards As “Credentials”
Good for media ethics pundit Howard Kurtz for blowing the whistle, however gently, on ABC News’s hiring of Elizabeth Smart as a contributing on-air expert on missing children cases. “Does that strike anyone as odd?” he writes. Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Mercedes Colwin
Fox legal analyst Mercedes Colwin just spectacularly and irresponsibly misinformed Sean Hannity’s radio audience, and added to the widespread and incorrect belief that it is somehow unethical for an attorney to represent a client the attorney knows is guilty. (It is not.) Compounding her reckless mistake, she noted that she had been “a judge,” thus giving apparent credibility to her utterly erroneous characterization of how criminal defense works. This was also misleading: Colwin was an administrative law judge, which has nothing whatsoever to do with criminal justice. Continue reading →
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