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Obama, Trayvon Martin, Biases and Kansas City Burning

A burning in Kansas City points up the problem with President Obama’s comment on the Trayvon Martin shooting. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: Time To Retire Editorial Cartoons—With Gratitude

A cartoonist makes his point in defense of editorial cartoons. Continue reading

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Time To Retire Editorial Cartoons, With Gratitude

Editorial cartoons have jumped the shark. Take, for example, Tom Toles. Continue reading

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Ethics Train Wreck Chronicles: Villains, Victims, Hypocrites and Unlikely Heroes In the Contraception / Limbaugh / Fluke Debacle

If this isn’t the Ethics Train Wreck of the Year, I don’t want to be around when the real one arrives. Continue reading

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Ethics Alarms Recap: A Long Weekend of Ethics

A recap of the weekend’s topics, for those of you who took a weekend’s break from ethics, or at least arguing about them Continue reading

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The Broadcast Media’s Golden Rule: “Do Unto Others What You Will Use Cronyism To Stop Others From Doing Unto You”

Boy, there goes that Fox again, insisting on broadcasting the news…. Continue reading

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Our Incompetent Broadcast News Media: A Frustrating Morning With Soledad O’Brien

The incompetence and bias of the broadcast media is doing its part tyo send the US down the path of Greece. Exhibit A: CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. Continue reading

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Unethical Quote of the Week: “Today Show” Co-Host Ann Curry

The hypocrisy and the ethical blindness of the media when it comes to the Kennedys defies belief. And it is disgusting. Continue reading

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Ethics Quote of the Week: George Clooney

George Clooney, talking sense, As he often does. Continue reading

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Faculty Advisor? Principal?? Supervision??? Oversight???? HELLO?????

School supervisors let a school newspaper loose, and the result was “STD Boy.” Continue reading

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