PressEthic

I learned that I was inherently evil. I learned that anyone who appeared good was a hypocrite, and if I strove for goodness, everything would just fall apart. Hmm. Why was this in The New York Times again?

With all our current discussion on the inevitability of bias in the media, it is beneficial to read an article dealing with a controversial issue that addresses both sides fairly. The AP Article, "Wisconsin Gay Marriage Battleground" proved to be just such an article.

This election season The San Francisco Chronicle has decided to shake things up a bit. Instead of printing traditional one-on-one interviews with candidates and then endorsing one of them, the newspaper will host hour-long candidate debates before the paper’s editorial board. The newspaper’s broadcast partner CBS 5 will then broadcast these debates live through streaming video.

How much information should media outlets provide on how the poll was conducted?

See Eric Alterman on video, Peggy Noonan at work, the New York Times defended, George Allen denounced, a hilarious piece of media criticism and various sneaky links about Europe... all in one post

As if risking life and limb to get a story weren’t enough, Iraqi journalists also have to worry about being criminalized for publishing same story, if it contains anything critical of the government.

Iraq is worse than the Bush administration is willing to admit, Woodward says in his new book.

Everywhere the 1st Amendment isn't hate speech laws threaten freedom of speech and the press.

After reading an article in today's Daily News about "Hiliary hitting the Bush team yet again," I'm convinced that it's the media's goal to portray Hiliary and Bill Clinton as two 'heated' individuals constantly in opposition of the Bush administration. Notwithstanding this argument, the article says things like, "The White House and Clinton have traded 'barbs' since her ex-President husband 'erupted' in a figer-jabbing tirade." This statment is one that drips with media bias. The whole premise of the article was essentially focused around the Clinton's oppositions, or faults in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The recently declassified National Intelligence Estimate summary contains plenty of information contradicting what the public hears from the Bush administration.

Performances of an opera in Germany where the beheading of several religious figures - Jesus, Muhammed and Buddha among them - were cancelled in response to an anonymous threat. The threat is the issue, and the cancellation of the opera, not the representation of religious figures, beheaded or not.

Reaction from the speech Pope Benedict XVI delivered more than two weeks ago still has legs. Coverage was given yesterday in several broadcast and paper venues to ongoing protests and pronouncements from across Islam. From cartoons to culled excerpts of papal speeches, an argument could be made that the Muslim world is overly sensitized, and that media treatment is more concerned with the conflagration than with taking a reasoned and hard look at Islamic overreaction.

He's still the president! Of a country! And Jon Stewart interviewed him on The Daily Show! With jokes! A head of state!

Guess who said it?

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.