PressEthic

Will cameras in the courtroom diminish the institution?

Media people shouldn't accept financial assistance from politicians. Period.

China has found a new way to keep foreign journalists out - imprison or beat the local people who help them.

"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

About one year ago, the Pentagon launched a television channel. Yesterday, CNN ran a story about it, questioning its objectivity. According the people interviewed in the story, the Pentagon Channel may violate a law that forbids government propaganda within the United States.

Harriet Miers's revelation that she thinks George W. Bush is the smartest man she's ever met really tells us how little we know about her, and why she's being chosen for a spot on the Supreme Court.

Last Saturday, a cameraman from the Associated Press filmed two policemen beating a 64-year old person in a street of New Orleans. Would this event be in the news had the video not existed?

Smurf village destroyed, Baby Smurf sole survivor.

Are you a journalist? Is Sports Illustrated a magazine or a newspaper? They might seem like obvious questions, but when it comes to state shield laws, it all depends.

My horoscope suggested I nitpick Monday's Times. I'm kidding -- it was actually the tea leaves.

Most major dailies mentioned nothing of the FBI shooting death—some call it assassination—of 72 yr. old Puerto Rican revolutionary Filiberto Ojeda Rios. So why has the Hartford Courant run 17 articles about him?

The U.S. government does nothing, mainstream media follows suit

al-Jazeera International signs on it's first big-name journalist.

For some, especially academics, blogging can be an double-edged sword. It can get you fame, it can get you glory, and sadly in some cases it can get you fired.

Richard Lugar (R-Ind) is co-sponsoring a bill aiming to protect journalists' right to keep confidential sources anonymous. But, while promoting the bill, he has aroused the blogosphere, saying that bloggers will 'probably not' be protected if the law should pass.