Category Archives: Ethics

Buttry on plagiarism

By Michael Becker | Published: February 21, 2010
In light of the recent pla­gia­rism scan­dals,* Steve Buttry entreats jour­nal­ists to make their pre-writing processes more trans­par­ent and to be more dili­gent in their note taking. As many peo­ple do when they write about pla­gia­rism, Buttry “pla­gia­rizes” most of his post (cita­tion needed). Of course, he’s not really pla­gia­riz­ing. In fact, his whole point [...]
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‘Public’ Consultation Over ACTA In Mexico Almost Required NDAs, Blogger Removed For Tweeting

By Michael Becker | Published: January 23, 2010
Geraldine Juarez writes in to let us know of her expe­ri­ence attend­ing what was billed as a “pub­lic hear­ing” about the ACTA treaty in Mexico (link in Spanish, Google trans­la­tion here), which sounded really messed up. First, despite it being a pub­lic hear­ing, orig­i­nally those putting on the event wanted atten­dees to sign nondis­clo­sure [...]
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Who owns the e-mail interview?

By Michael Becker | Published: December 20, 2009
Paul Bradshaw, writ­ing for Poynter, has raised some great ques­tions about inter­views con­ducted by e-mail. Bradshaw was inter­viewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that per­son would mind if Bradshaw pub­lished the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data. The jour­nal­ist minded, say­ing, even­tu­ally, that [...]
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Word of Mouth

By Michael Becker | Published: November 22, 2009
From Brad Stone’s arti­cle in the New York Times, look­ing at how mar­keters are try­ing to over­come ad sat­u­ra­tion and inject mes­sages into the con­ver­sa­tions peo­ple are hav­ing on their social networks: “We don’t want to cre­ate an army of spam­mers, and we are not try­ing to turn Facebook and Twitter into one giant spam net­work,” [...]
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Jacob Weisberg criticizes bias at Fox News

By Michael Becker | Published: October 19, 2009
Fox News is clearly biased, writes Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy, and reporters who value a truly fair and bal­anced press should avoid the net­work on eth­i­cal grounds. The bias is due to Rupert Murdoch, Weisberg writes. Murdoch brought to Fox News an “Australian-British-continental of politi­cized media” that [...]
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