PressEthic

The New York Times will have a picture and feature of the Race for Breast Cancer on the front page of the paper but yet they can't include the story of why demonstrators are protesting against the killing in Sudan? Furthermore, Sudan won't let the UN in the country... do you think Iraq willing omitted America into the country? Aren't these people's lives worth fighting for?

Videos on YouTube.com and Photobucket.com, two popular video-sharing websites, show Chinese police beating protestors in a riot that began last week over the death of a popular local schoolteacher. Families and students objected to the police investigation into her alleged suicide. The Chinese government has attempted to suppress these politically sensitive videos, but Internet bloggers have released them for the world to see.

Continuing news covergage of the Hewlett-Packard controversy illustrates the collision of ethics and law.

In searching for examples of media bias for this week's class, I came across an excellent piece on Aljazeera's website, which critiques the bias apparent in US and British media coverage of the recent Israeli-Lebanese conflict.

Does the prevalence of money and glamour in popular media encourage young people to do whatever it takes to get ahead? What role does media have in perpetuating unrealistic ideals for American youth and encouraging kids to do whatever it takes to attain them?

Despite recent news that Time Inc. is selling off many of its niche publications and the constant reminder that we are entering "a dying craft," Ben Goldhirsh is starting a new magazine that aims to "stimulate the culture of good by creating dialogue around things that matter."

The Associated Press switched out of its traditional reporting role to expose the case of one if its own photographers being held in Iraq by the U.S. military

How is the most trusted news source in the country to react when pressed by our nation’s own government to keep controversial information under wraps, under the pretext of protecting national security?

I guess they do ethics differently down south.

Does The New York Times, even after the Jayson Blair scandal, really need to reiterate its credibility, relevance and high standards of reporting? Could the Times, revered among journalists and journalism students, feel the heat to compete more effectively in new media markets?

After firing three journalists from their sister paper last week, Miami Herald's publisher clarifies the paper's ethics in a Sunday editorial.

After watching their stock take a nosedive earlier this summer, the higher-ups at the Tribune Company are asking LA Times editor Dean P. Baquet to cut more jobs. But Baquet isn't toeing the line. In fact, he's stomping all over it.

Bernard Goldberg says CBS News biased its coverage of Steve Forbes and his flat tax plan because they took their cues from the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Was the New York Times flat tax coverage back in 1996 actually biased? Let's ask Lexis Nexis.

I just read an interesting article in the "New York Times" that discusses an age-old law in India that maybe largely responsible for its #1 or #2 ranking of infected persons with AIDS or H.I.V. According to "The New York Times," Indian goverment has a 145-year old law entitled Section 377, which prohibits gay sex, more specifically, 'carnal itercourse against the order of nature with man, woman or animal.' "Independent India" stated that the law "has no good purpose. . .and has been used to systematically persecute, blackmail, and arrest and terrorize sexual minorities." My question to you guys is "Do you feel like this law is the reason why India's H.I.V.

As I’ve been reading all the different stories about the Iraqi trenches, I still have no clarity about what we should be taking out of it. All the papers and news sources have covered it very differently, but does this mean they have different agendas? Everyone has a different idea about the most important aspects of the story.