PressEthic

The news organization's strange habit of reporting awful events as inconsequential fodder for amusement.

Free newspapers, available throughout New York City and handed out in front of subway stations, are being blamed for clogging the city’s subways. Yet, I wonder if the major newspapers are actually concerned with subway problems and delays, or are actively seeking to damage their competitors.

The Harvard Crimson, a student-run newspaper at Harvard University, publicly apologized for a columnist plagiarizing material that ran in Slate last year. It seems the desperate need to plagiarize is felt at all levels not just among professional journalists like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, two of the more famous plagiarists in recent times.

NBC and the CW networks became “unwitting stealth marketing partners” with the Weinstein Co., producers of the recently released film, “Shut up and Sing,” according to an article printed Saturday in the Washington Post.

Doesn't Bush seem to be holding press conferences constantly these days? Aren't we awfully close to a major election? Do these two things have any relationship? I'm betting they do, and to support my argument, lets briefly look at the substance of these press conferences.

The United States has been ranked 53rd in the Worldwide Press Freedom Index for 2006 released by Reporters Without Borders. Yes, that's right, more than fifty countries have more press freedom than the U.S., which is on a par with Croatia, Tonga, and Botswana.

In the November issue of Rolling Stone magazine, the front cover features a political cartoon portraying the current Congress. The article is called: "Time to Go! Incompetent, Lazy, and Corrupt: Inside the Worst Congress Ever." Is something this politically biased fair game in the magazine world?

Leave it to the White House spokesman to find race-baiting an amusing and acceptable campaign tactic. Any chance of a retraction on this one?

I'm sure things like this happen all the time; women and children being brutally raped, people being castrated, people using body limbs trophies. War is a disgusting fact and these men who are brave enough or brain-washed enough to put their lives on the line are submitted themselves to irreputable psychological damage. I feel if they are giving their lives the government needs to care about their mental states because that is what leads to disturbing images and possible tainted images of military.

The Poynter Institute as ethical oracle.

Yes, the president did say, about his Iraq policy, "we've never been stay the course."

Earlier this week, Vermont Public Radio barred Union candidate Peter Diamondstone from taking part in a U.S. Senate debate, claiming concerns over whether the “perennial protest candidate might subject the station to severe penalties under new federal broadcast indecency laws.”

It would be wise for journalists to make their intentions about the use of an interview absolutely clear.

After all, shouldn’t someone who call his or herself a journalist ask the tough questions and unearth some real stories behind Hollywood?

The war in Iraq rages on and America troops continue to make the ultimate sacrifice. In this milieu a multitude of reasons have forced The Chicago Tribune to forgo profiles of dead soldiers, causing the paper flak from all sides.