Tag Archives: Mark McGwire

April 14, 2011

Ethics Dunce: Buzz Bissinger

Buzz Bissinger, a the member in good standing of the Daily Beast’s stable of annoyingly hypocritical, biased or appallingly cynical writers has authored an article that pronounces the Barry Bonds conviction “a travesty” in the title, and presents one ethics howler after another, any of one of which would have justified an Ethics Dunce prize. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Dunces, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, History, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society, War and the Military, Workplace

Tagged as "innocent until proven guilty", accountability, all-time career home run record, atom bomb, Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds trial, baseball, Buzz Bissinger, cheating, ethics, fairness, federal prosecutors, Hiroshima, Japan, Jeff Novitsky, justice, legal ethics, lying to a grand jury, Mark McGwire, Monica Lewinsky scandal, obstruction of justice, performance-enhancing drugs, perjury, President Bill Clinton, rationalizations, Roger Clemens, selective prosecution, steroids, World War II

December 31, 2010

Hall of Fame Ethics: The Jeff Bagwell Dilemma

One baseball Hall of Fame controversy this year should be of interest to non-fans as well as fans, because it involves the proper application of the ethical principles of fairness and equity in an environment of doubt. It is the Jeff Bagwell dilemma. Continue reading →

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Filed under Journalism & Media, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as Barry Bonds, Baseball Writers Association of America, bigotry, character, cheating, equity, ethics, fairness, guilt by association, Jeff Bagwell, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, rationalizations, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

September 30, 2010

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

If Tom Boswell knew that a steroid-user was going to be voted into the Hall under the false assumption that he was not a cheat, he was obligated to let the public, his colleagues who voted the honor, and Major League Baseball know about it too. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as Barry Bonds, baseball, Cal Ripken, confidentiality, duty to warn, ethics, integrity, Jose Canseco, journalism, journalistic ethics, Ken Burns, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Ricky Henderson, Roger Clemens, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa, sportswriters, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Thomas Boswell, whistleblowers

September 19, 2010

“The Ethicist” and His Definition of “Unethical”

While explaining in this week column why he hesitated to label a manifestly unethical practice unethical, The New York Times Magazine’s ethicist, Randy Cohen, clarified a couple of questions that have been bothering me for quite a while. Why do so many people react so violently to the conclusion that they have done something unethical? And why does Randy Cohen, a.k.a. “The Ethicist” so frequently endorse unethical conduct, especially dishonesty, when he believes it is motivated by virtuous motives? Continue reading →

Gift or Bribe? Barry Bonds’ Generosity to the NABJ

Is Barry Bonds trying to soften up the press? Does the gift create an appearance of impropriety? Is it, in short, a bribe, from which Bonds expects some kind words when he needs them? Continue reading →

The Ethics of Giving Up on Ethics

The growth of ethical rot in failed civilizations has always been fertilized by quitters. Continue reading →

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Filed under Citizenship, Daily Life, Journalism & Media, Race, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as apathy, Barry Bonds, baseball, Brian Cushing, cheating, child labor laws, Clarence Darrow, consumerism, courage, cowardice, culture, cycling, doping, drug legalization, environmentalism, ethics, fairness, honesty, John Adams, justice, justice system, Lance Armstrong, Mark McGwire, Martin Luther King, N.F.L., Paul Daugherty, performance-enhancing drugs, polution, racism, Ralph Nader, recreational drugs, Samuel Gompers, slavery, society, Susan B. Anthony, unions, William Lloyd Garrison, women's rights

March 21, 2010

Unethical Questions, Anti-Semitism, and Greenberg’s Chase

When you ask a question nobody is asking, people assume there’s a good reason. There better be, but the question of whether anti-Semitism kept Hank Greenberg from breaking Babe Ruth’s record doesn’t qualify. Continue reading →

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Filed under History, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Religion and Philosophy, Research and Scholarship, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as "The Glory of Their Times", "Web of Conspiracy", anti-Semitism, Babe Ruth, baseball, confirmation bias, conspiracy theories, deciet, Edwin Stanton, fairness, Gavvy Cravath, Hank Greenberg, Howard Megdal, innuendo, irresponsible, Jimmy Foxx, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln assassination, Mark McGwire, Mo Vaughn, Occam's Razor, Roger Maris, Sammy Sosa, steroids, Theodore Roscoe

January 22, 2010

Ethics Dunce: New York Times Sportswriter Ken Belson

The popular position that only the pure and blameless have the right to condemn misconduct by others threatens our culture’s ability to discuss and distinguish right and wrong. It has to be refuted, discredited, and buried. Continue reading →

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Filed under Ethics Dunces, Journalism & Media, Religion and Philosophy, Sports

Tagged as August Busch IV, Biblical rationalizations, cowardice, journalistic ethics, Ken Belson, Mark McGwire, punditry

January 12, 2010

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 2: Neyer and the Rationalizations

The worst thing about Mark McGwire’s belated confession is that I once again have to listen to and read the absurd, hackneyed, illogical and ethically obtuse arguments for ignoring his conduct. Continue reading →

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Filed under Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Science & Technology, Sports, The Internet, U.S. Society

Tagged as cheating, ESPN, ethics, fairness, honesty, integrity, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Rob Neyer, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

January 12, 2010

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 1

Mark McGwire’s long-awaited admission that he used steroid should have no bearing at all on the judgment of him as an unworthy baseball idol. McGwire cheated, and his use of steroids damaged his fellow players and the game. Continue reading →

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Filed under Business & Commercial, Ethics Scoreboard classics, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Religion and Philosophy, Science & Technology, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as apology, Barry Bonds, cheating, confessions, contrition, Ethics Scoreboard, honor, integrity, Major League Baseball, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Roger Clemens, Roger Maris, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

Tag Archives: Mark McGwire

Ethics Dunce: Buzz Bissinger

Hall of Fame Ethics: The Jeff Bagwell Dilemma

Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach

“The Ethicist” and His Definition of “Unethical”

Gift or Bribe? Barry Bonds’ Generosity to the NABJ

The Ethics of Giving Up on Ethics

Unethical Questions, Anti-Semitism, and Greenberg’s Chase

Ethics Dunce: New York Times Sportswriter Ken Belson

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 2: Neyer and the Rationalizations

Mark McGwire’s Steroid Confession, Part 1

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