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Flunking the Keith Olbermann Test

Howard Kurtz flunks the Keith Olbermann test. Since Kurtz is supposedly an expert on journalist ethics, I suppose the public shouldn’t feel so bad about flunking too. Continue reading

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Obama’s “Enemies,” Pat Caddell, and the Cognitive Dissonance Misdirection

Now, as the media’s favorite politicians and party teeter on electoral disaster, its favorite President uttered a disturbing word in reference to his political opponents. The word was “enemies,” and he told a Hispanic network interviewer that those enemies needed to be “punished.” Once again, themainstream media ignored it, leaving the criticism to conservative bloggers, Fox, and Sean Hannity. A week after the remarks, however, a Democratic pollster and commentator, Pat Caddell, collaborated with Doug Schoen on a powerful op-ed for the Washington Post. Continue reading

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Summer Rerun: “Ending the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Trust in America”

Trust is the reason why ethics is so important in America: if there is a single post of the more than 700 I have written here since October 2009 I would like people to read, this is it. Continue reading

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The Unethical Humiliation of Sister Rita X

Hannity seems to think it is amusing to his listeners for him to allow this opinionated, loud and deluded woman rant on in response to his goading. He also thinks, apparently, this it is a powerful indictment of progressive cant to have an advocate of sorts sound just as deranged as conservatives like Hannity believe all liberals really are Continue reading

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Ethics Dunces: Sen. Kerry’s Critics

Hypocrisy, unfairness…pick your own adjective for Republican and conservative attacks on Sen. John Kerry for saving himself some money by docking his $7 million yacht in Rhode Island. Continue reading

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Daniel Schorr’s Ethical Legacy

The Late Daniel Schorr was not an objective journalist, and despite his proclamations to the contrary, he wasn’t an ethical journalist either. He just thought he was. Continue reading

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More Lessons from the Sherrod Ethics Train Wreck

We learned that we can’t trust videotape to be self-explanatory, as if we didn’t know that already. We learned that we can’t trust Andrew Breitbart not to mislead us. We learned we can’t trust our government to act fairly, responsibly and with due process when political concerns loom, and that we can’t trust it to take full responsibility for its own errors. We learned the same about the N.A.A.C.P., and also that its leadership will lie to the public when it thinks the media will allow it to do so. Continue reading

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The Hannity-Fox-Tea Party Connection

Fox waited far too long to cancel Sean Hannity’s Tea Party fundraiser. Continue reading

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Fox Nation: Fair, Balanced, Biased, and Incredibly Gullible

It just isn’t ethical journalism to run stories because you wish they were true. Continue reading

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Essay: Ending the Bi-Partisan Effort to Destroy Trust in America

America has reached the breaking point in its loss of trust in the government. It took both parties, Left and Right to get us there. It’s up to the public to fix it, and time is running out. Continue reading

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