PressEthic

Media commentator Norman Solomon describes how mainstream news, especially the New York Times, may be treating the latest pull-out narrative in Iraq much like WMDs at the very beginning of the conflict.

FAIR takes the CNN Headline News host to task for his threatening remarks towards Muslims, as well as his other hateful attacks

The influential filmmaker has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for a sports journalism program at Morehouse College, an all-male, traditionally black college.

The star quarterback flipped off some fans after a game this weekend, but television stations had to blur the "obscene" act. I guess we, the television audience, are just not quite prepared to see a single middle finger trust into the air.

Thanks to Michael Richard's offensive and racist meltdown on a comedy club stage, Mel Gibson's drunken rant about Jews seems minor in comparison. But you couldn't tell by the media coverage.

Katie Couric mentioned in her blog that she was "nursing a cup of French vanilla Dunkin' Donuts coffee. And munchkins." As a result, the donut-chain sent over about 10 boxes of Munchkins and five large boxes of coffee for the "Evening News" staff, which were happily consumed. For those strict journalism ethics people, is this crossing the line? If not, how many Munchkins would it take?

A Fox News internal memo was leaked on the Huffington Post, telling reporters to be on alert for celebrations among Iraqi insurgents, after the Dems won the House and Senate and Rumsfeld resigned. The Fox News result: "Some reports of cheering in the streets on the behalf of the supporters of the insurgency in Iraq, that they're very pleased with the way things are going here and also with the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld." Wonder where they got that from?

An interview with the ex football player will air on Fox later this month, in which he describes how he would have murdered Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman if he had actually done it.

With the news of Rumsfeld's resignation, TIME magazine's online website critically analyzed the Defense Secretary's tenure under George W. Bush, calling it "A Long Overdue Departure"

The student newspaper for Northwestern University, one of the leading journalism programs in the country, retracted a story that included plagiarized material and severed ties with the writer. News of the retracted story made it onto Poynter Online, another reminder of just how careful journalists need to be nowadays.

When it comes to stories covering families and individuals in crisis who need financial help, what are the ethical questions involved for the media? Why are some stories and subjects chosen over others?

Both conservatives and liberals find fault in the way Sen. John Kerry's comments have been covered in the mainstream news media.

MSNBC's Keith Olberman called the Republican Party the "leading terrorist group in this country" on his program this week. If al Qaida is a terrorist group, and suicide bombers are terrorists, and the Bush administration is a terrorist organization, how should the loaded word be used by journalists?

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh attacked Michael J. Fox for faking or exaggerating his Parkinson's disease affliction as part of a political ad in support of stem cell research.

In the spirit of Kevin's photographic evidence of bias in newspapers, here's another example of the power of images.