PressEthic

The two teens involved in the recent double murder of parents in Pennsylvania kept blogs...is this news?

Words that shouldn't be used again in journalism, and shouldn't have been invented in the first place.

Currently bloggers in countries like the USA are pretty much free to say whatever they want. However this does not mean they are free from ethical accountability.

Don't you wish God would just come down here and tell us all what he thinks about issues that we fight about?

Arthur Sulzberger's continued defense of Judy Miller is only serving to further damage the reputation of the New York Times.

San Francisco Chronicle ponders the state of Mayor Newsom's marriage.

King Gyanendra wants to quell the Maoist opposition. But putting a gag on the press isn't going to help.

In an effort to entertain, ESPN simulated a few news conferences to discuss possible trades in Major League Baseball. ESPN speculates on possible trades in every sport, and they do it every year. However, they may have gone too far this time.

Journalists aren’t the only ones getting caught for plagiarism. The Tulsa World fired their longtime editorial cartoonist on Thursday. David Simpson, who was recently inductee into the Okaahoma Cartoonists Hall of Fame, re-created a cartoon originally published in The Hartford Courant in 1981. The cartoon ran in The Tulsa World on June 7, 2005. Read the story here

In an AP story Robert E. Lorton III, the publisher for The Tulsa World, had this to say:

"Dave is a tremendous creative talent, and his cartoons have been enjoyed by our readers for years," he said. "However, plagiarism is the cardinal sin of a newsroom, and all those who are employed by us to gather, report or comment on the news are stewards of the public."

White House adviser Karl Rove, in the media spotlight as an ongoing indictment target for Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, gave a speech to conservative supporters yesterday. The Post reports a not-very-illuminating event.

Have you heard of such a thing as the CSI Effect? According to Wikipedia the

“CSI Effect is a phenomenon related to the popularity of television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Forensic Files and Law & Order. The effect has caused viewers, victims and jury members to have unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence, DNA testing and extensive investigations at crime scenes, similar to those seen on these programs. This has changed the way many investigations and trials are presented today.”

There are more television shows dealing with investigators and the law then I care to count. They seem to be everywhere these days! There are three starting with “CSI” alone. Has there been another genre with such a following as this? I don’t think so.

Judy Miller doesn’t really warrant a long post on my blog about her – for the past month I was just wishing she would go away…and she did, sort of. Miller finally “retired” from The Times. Is anyone really surprised?

Miller says she’s leaving her job in part because she has “become the news.” When she decided to go to jail for 85 days for really no good reason (since Scooter Libby had already been outed as a source from another journalist) what did she expect?

Upon her return to work she had an escort to bring her into The Times building. She obviously had an inkling into how her co-workers felt about her. With the Weapons of Mass Destruction fiasco and her nickname, “Miss Run-Amok,” written about in practically every story about her, did she really think she was going to go back to a warm reception at The Times and a semblance of anonymity?

There’s a shirt being sold right now: The Fake News is All I Need.

Edward Murrow. As in, don't compare yourself to him. Ever. Please.

The intelligence community have established a center to look at media throughout the globe. This again demonstrates how the internet is an important democratic tool.