Jay Rosen recently gave a speech entitled: If Blogging Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed
(But It Didn’t. So Let’s Get a Clue).
You can see the video here and his notes and other comments here at PressThink.
Jamison Foser at Media Matters for America has an interesting essay on how the media should deal with campaign lies and how they too often privilege the liars and their lies at the expense of the offended party.
Here is a key part of the essay, which is directed toward the John McCain operatives who are […]
SpinSpotter: Promotes itself saying:
We are truth mongers. We are the destroyers of spin.
Question is: Would the SpinSpotter spot the company’s own spin in the above sentence?
A New York Times story, does not exactly give the downloadable program high acclaim, but it is too early to start condemning the idea.
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by a panel entitled: Ethics and the Business of Journalism: A Discussion of Urgent Importance at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual convention. Most of the questions dealt with the ethical mainstream questions such as is there too much Britney Spears on the front […]
I got a spam email today for the two-day BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas. It includes an optional citizen journalism workshop, which promises in just two days:
I remember when I was a kid similar ads for becoming a Private Detective — and alas I did a search and the come-ons are still there. […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.