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Category Archives: Chapter 14
Link Ch. 14 – Should a student photographer be asked to change the color of the sky?
Back in 2008, there was a a big debate going on over at SportsShooter.com as to whether it was proper for a college newspaper adviser to tell a photographer that he needed to make the sky bluer in a photo of an MLK … Continue reading
Link Ch. 14 – An Astrophotographer Talks Digital Manipulation
Space photographer Jerry Lodriguss talks about the ethics of digitally manipulating their images. It’s not just press photography where this is an issue. The Ethics of Digital Manipulation
Link Ch. 14 – When is a headline offensive?
There’s a heartwarming story that’s been up on the Interwebs this week about President Obama giving a speech on energy policy at St. George Community College. Stephon, a deaf student had front-row seating for the event, got to shake the … Continue reading
Link Ch. 11 – Privacy in the Digital Age: Target knows that high school girl is preggers before dad does
In the age of online shopping and digital information, it’s easy to get paranoid about how much vendors know about us. You want to get creeped out? Start paying attention to the recommendations that Amazon makes to you based on … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – A Million Little Memoir Fabrications
Reprinted from my blog from January 27, 2006: A Million Little Problems Dept. – Fall Out From James Frey’s Fabrications A week or so ago I ran a guest commentary by my colleague John Temple about his outrage at the apparent fabrications … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 14, Chapter 4
Tagged ethics, memoir fabrications, Truth 4
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Link Ch. 6 – Should Reporters Call Out Sources For Lying?
The NY Times public editor really set off a bit of a firestorm today with his column. In it, Arthur Brisbane asks, apparently seriously, whether reporters ought to be calling out sources for claiming things as “facts” that are demonstrably … Continue reading
Posted in Book Link, Chapter 14, Chapter 2, Chapter 6
Tagged ethics, newspapers, politics, Truth 6
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How Can You Write a Better Blog? Some great suggestions from Dan Frommer, author of the tech blog SplatF. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Accuracy, readable, skeptical, attributed, context, critical but fair, mechanics, original, new. Why Does Scooby-Doo Need People … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, blogging, ethics, legal issues, politics, questions
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Joe McGinniss responds to Janet Malcolm’s “The Journalist and the Murderer”
In 1989, journalist Janet Malcolm published two-part series of articles in The New Yorker under the headline “The Journalist and the Murderer.” (It has since then been published as a slim book.) In what would come to be one of … Continue reading
Patriot-News Devotes Front Page to Editorial on Penn State Scandal
The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran a front-page editorial on Tuesday calling on Penn State University President Graham Spanier to resign over his failure to “do what is right – for his school, or more importantly for the alleged victims of coaching … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Can journalists ever safely retweet the opinions of others without appearing biased? And should that stop them from retweeting those opinions? Here’s what the AP thinks about it, and an interesting response from 10,000 Words. Will NBC still matter anymore, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
Tagged bias, legal issues, questions, social media, television
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