Category: Ethics
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Reflection on accuracy in journalism & Judith Miller
Judith Miller was invited to speak at SPJ back in 2005. I was still getting used to being a journalist, and I couldn’t believe the way many of the traditional journalists just took what she said as gospel. She seemed like a shill for the Bush administration to me; a beltway sycophant. Despite persuading…
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But I’m sure they didn’t do that in the US…
Brown joins a long list of Labour politicians who are known to have been targeted by private investigators working for News International, including the former prime minister Tony Blair and his media adviser Alastair Campbell, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and his political adviser Joan Hammell, Peter Mandelson as trade secretary, Jack Straw…
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Confidentiality, Bloggers, and the TSA
The Tyranny Of Government And Our Duty Of Confidentiality As Bloggers. TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington discusses two bloggers who were recently served with subpoenas from the TSA, a government agency. One blogger refused to reveal his sources. The other, who was served as he was babysitting for his children, gave his computer over to the TSA.…