PressEthic

To stay hip, news needs to go the way of Ipods and Itunes, says David Carr.

A court ruling has protected anonymity for bloggers. Is this necessarily a good thing for democracy?

It seems that, not only is racial profiling happening, not only is it being photographed and published, but few people even notice!

Is there an irreconciliable difference of interest between the corporate and the journalistic halves of a newspaper?

Scholarships from the Sulzberger family facilitate racial diversity in newsrooms. Racial diversity requires diversity in journalism education.

Westren media missed a lot of scoops by not covering the two new phenomena in Iraq: aids and drug trafficking

A foreign tourist couple approached me today on E 12th St. and asked how to take the bus to Harlem. The bus to Harlem?

I said I didn't know, and that it was faster to take the train anyway.

"Yes, but you have heard the announcement?" the woman asked. The announcement? Oh, the announcement.

"You don't want to take the train, do you?" I asked.

Her eyes widened. "Nooooooo. No!" she barked.

Ok, that's one for Bloomberg's announcement keeping people off the trains.

Ultimately, I don't know if these terror announcements should be made. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

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

The New York Daily News recently used an undercover reporter to test police vigilance in city's subways amid warnings of a highly specific threat involving the detonation of bombs in baby strollers. After three hours of subway riding with a baby carriage, the reporter claims to have received nary a second glance by the police. Was the undercover reporting honest and ethical? Perhaps not. But are New Yorkers better off knowing that the city's police force wasn't doing its job? Yes.

Contradictory security procedures and announcements are dangerous for people too.

Iraq war and its consequences were covered, but there are always missing points in the coverage of media oulets, especially histrorical fatcs about the region.

Four Terrorist Bombings You Didn’t Hear About

Hearst, Conde Nast to Launch New Magazines

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?

Perhaps I’m naïve and this is how the magazine business works. I’m not an avid Jane reader – I don’t even subscribe – but I felt like she really gave her loyal fans a raw deal.