PressEthic

The Boston Herald makes me a little less proud of my hometown.

Explaining how he gets around his underage status, Palencia is quoted as saying: “I try to trust my nose.”

Afghanistan is one of the more surprising vacation destinations that Pelton recommends.

There's talk talk talk about changing the face of journalism. Who are we trying to convince?

If it's not what you write but what you write about, then I guess I am biased this week.

A journalist from the Guardian is missing in Iraq. The paper says he has been kidnapped. How should the media cover this kind of hostage taking?

Sometimes columnists' wit doesn't outlast their word count.

LA Times editorial supports Supreme Court rejecting case against the tobacco companies

David Lemus was set free today after spending 14 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

How can someone, after stealing a quote and four paragraphs from another writer, say it wasn’t intentional? OF COURSE it was intentional – who is she kidding?

It's moments like these that make me treasure modern technology.

Scott McLellan isn’t “nice-guy Scott” anymore, reporters tell Howard Kurtz.

Popular blogger Andrew Sullivan today publicized unsubstantiated rumors about Vice President Dick Cheney getting implicated in the Valerie Plame affair. Though he admitted his sourcing is "light" and that it could just be "Capitol Hill buzz," he advocates that the public deserves to know such rumors. Is this the future of journalism?

Are we so cynical that the only way we can believe objectivity is through sarcasm?

"Magazine Editors Buck Marketers"? Advertisers will be "disappointed"? Is it possible that the industry is actually acting in an ethical manner?