PressEthic

Avian flu should not be made into a political issue.

If I remember one thing from my undergraduate geology class, it's that walling off the ocean is never a good idea.

"Newark Mayor Sharpe James and the city council have found a way to buy good news." - Jeffrey C. Mays

Explaining how he gets around his underage status, Palencia is quoted as saying: “I try to trust my nose.”

Afghanistan is one of the more surprising vacation destinations that Pelton recommends.

In a classic display of journalistic objectivity, Douglas never chooses a side in the conflict. Instead, violence itself is treated as the main enemy.

"She has been advised by her lawyers not to discuss her grand jury testimony until it has been completely finished, the Times's executive editor Bill Keller told Times employees in a memo sent Tuesday." - AP

Mayor Bloomberg and Police Chief Kelly said the only thing they could say: Please don’t worry, but the subways may blow up.

You might say that this experiment isn’t realistic. Who gets low calorie salad dressing with their McDonalds salad? But, who force-feeds themselves super-sized meals until they vomit?

“All of those people who died that day, those folks who we’ve heard toasted as angels and heroes and martyrs, well, they weren’t all good people. I used to live in New York. I know it.”

It’s frustrating how Miller has still not answered any of these questions, nearly a week after she was released from jail.

News reporting is a business, reporters write for an audience, and capitalistic principals of supply and demand will always prevail.

I don’t usually think of National Geographic as a news magazine, but I really liked reading their online news coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

I was amazed at how far CNN was willing to stretched the truth in order to take a jab at President Bush.

Brown was definitely the scape-goat the media turned to when recovery efforts started going badly, but a government agency that can’t handle swarms of reporters is woefully ill-equipped to handle disasters.