Tag Archives: professionalism
And You Thought Natalie Munroe Was An Unethical Teacher…Well, Meet Jeremy Hollinger
Remember Natalie Munroe, the teacher who blogged about how much she detested her high school students, calling them names like “rat-boy” and “jerkoff”? What, you may ask, could be more destructive to the necessary trust between teacher and student, or parents and the teacher to whom they entrust their student’s education, short of actual abuse? How about a teacher ridiculing his grade school special ed students? Continue reading
Ethics Quote of the Week: Greta Van Susteren
Gtrea Van Susteren asks why Wisconsin journalists haven’t demanded that the thugs on the Wisconsin Supreme Court resign. Good question! Continue reading
Ethics Dunce: Central Bucks East High School
Administrators at Central Bucks East High School in Doylestown,Pennsylvania, have decided to reinstate suspended teacher Natalie Munroe, who had made it very clear in several blog posts discovered by the school and her students last February that she detested her job and a great many of her students and their parents, spewing diatribes that ridiculed specific students for their appearance, habits, speech and character. There is no justification for this. Continue reading
Filed under Education, Ethics Dunces, Etiquette and manners, Family, Leadership, Professions, The Internet
Rep. West’s E-mail: Not Sexist, But Uncivil and Unprofessional…Just Ask George Washington.
How uncivil was Rep. West’s e-mail to Rep. Wasserman-Schultz? Pretty uncivil. Just ask George Washington. Continue reading
Wanted, Desperately Needed, and Lacking: Professionals, Adults and Values in the Media
This is what happens when a vital democratic institution requiring integrity, self-control, professionalism, ethics and a sense of responsibility is in the control of second rate minds with third rate values. Continue reading
“Professionalism?” What’s THAT? Julie Chen, CBS and the Descent of Broadcast Journalism
Julie Chen disgraced her network, her profession, and, I’m sorry to say, her gender. This is the state of broadcast journalism in 2011; this is what CBS has descended to, from the days of Murrow, Severeid and Cronkite. Continue reading
Ethics, Porn, and the Creepy Professor
The Ronald Ayers saga raises the intriguing, Weiner-esque ethical issue of whether a college professor being creepy is sufficient reason to fire him. Continue reading
Ethics Dunces: The Wisconsin Supreme Court—Choker, Chokee, Everyone
For the state’s highest court to behave in such a juvenile, disgraceful fashion—whatever happened, and whoever was at fault—embarrasses Wisconsin, the legal system, the judicial profession, and the nation. Every single justice on the court failed his or her ethical duty, because with competent, diligent, serious attention to the professional duties of the judiciary, justices do not start attacking each other. Continue reading
NBC and the Death of Professional Broadcast News
The cumulative impression of blogger Norman Charles’ observations is that fair, competent and professional broadcast journalism is all but dead on NBC, where it once flourished in the days of Huntley and Brinkley and Tom Brokaw. At one time I thought that polls showing that viewers under 30 got most of their news from “The Daily Show” constituted proof that our youngest generation was shallow and naive. Now I think that it may just be practical. Continue reading
