PressEthic

Google's got partial text of e-books online. Newspaper readership is shifting from print to online. Anyone care to curl up with a good e-book?

Sony has been working on a new product which will be made available this month in select areas. The Sony Reader is their attempt to contribute to the demise of paper.

Google purchased YouTube, the popular video-sharing website, on Monday for $1.65 billion in stock. Google's hope is that YouTube will prove to be as lucrative an enterprise as it's viewership suggests. The risk, however, in investing in an as-of-yet "unproven" dot-com business is apparent, and reminds us of the dot-com boom of the 1990's, explained an article in the New York Times yesterday.

With all of the media attention being given to former Congressman Mark Foley's inappropriate conduct, it isn't surprising that questions would be raised regarding how the story actually developed, and whether news organizations had a responsibility to act on anonymous sources that could have brought this story to light a long time ago. An article in the New York Times today entitled, "Papers Knew of Foley E-Mail But Did Not Publish Articles" describes the situation as controversial.

An AP article that appeared on CNN.com on Friday pled the case for Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi Journalist for the Associated Press whose photography led to a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Tom Curley of the Associated Press questions the U.S. military's decision to detain Bilal, asserting that they do not have hard evidence to prove that he is a threat.

An Associated Press article that appeared on AOL News Online today recounted the story of a seemingly innocent prank-turned-arrest. Gazi Abura was arrested after a home video was posted on YouTube that showed him impersonating a police officer and pretending to question a teenage boy about a robbery that he said had occurred in the area, the article explained.

In a New York Times article Sunday, Monica Davey explained the unfortunate illness that has affected some Americans as a result of consuming California-grown spinach contaminated with E. coli. She paints a harrowing portrait of a young child who, stricken with the sickness, asked his parents whether he was going to die.

An article in the Sports section of the New York Times on Tuesday discussed the impending imprisonment of Maurice Clarett, former freshman football standout at Ohio State University and repeated troublemaker. He played only one season (his freshman year) at Ohio State, in which he helped his team to a Fiesta Bowl victory over Miami with a touchdown in double overtime. So why are we still talking about him?

Yesterday, Yahoo! Sports broke the story about the allegations against Reggie Bush, 2005 Heisman Trophy recipient and former standout running back from the University of Southern California. He played an integral role in the Trojan's successive trips to the National Championship, and was the second player chosen overall (he was drafted to the New Orleans Saints) in the NFL's most recent draft. His abilities as a prodigy on the football field are virtually undisputed. His ethical decisions off the field, however, have been called into question.

National NFL writers for Yahoo! Sports Jason Cole and Charles Robinson published the findings of their eight-month long investigation in an article online yesterday.

The Complete New Yorker Portable Hard Drive could be mine, or yours, if I so desired a complete electronic archive of the magazine that dates back to its inception in 1925. In an age where the technological advancements are occurring almost too quickly to keep up with, it is no surprise that such electronic archives will soon be as easily accessible to us as the address book in our cellular telephones.

Lawrence Wright, esteemed journalist and author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the path to 9/11... described the turmoil he felt at interviewing people whom he knew had "done terrible things," and asserted that this presented "moral quandaries" where the line between being a journalist and being a human was, at best, blurrily drawn.