Thursday, September 25, 2008

Weekly Ethics Roundup

For ethics this week, let's play a little game of "should they?":
- should Andrea Mitchell report on the economy when she's married to one of the people most involved in the current crisis?
- should newspapers run op-ed pieces submitted by candidates even if they likely did not write them? (even though their competitors have done the same thing)
- should a journalist lose his job (in part) for racial epithets?
- should news organizations fight back when campaign strategic communicators characterize their journalism?
- should media report what is found in illegally hacked personal e-mails?
- should medication packaging and advertising be held to higher standards of disclosure?
- should releases and direct mail about voting be held to higher standards of accuracy?

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