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The Senator from General ElectricThe Supreme Court’s decision to give corporations the right to spend money from their treasuries on political campaigns is the end of civilization as we know it. Ohio GOP seeks teachers’ recordsTim Smith, chair of Kent State’s Media Law Center for Ethics and Access was interviewed recently in regards to a recent request by the Ohio Republican Party to obtain the names, home addresses, phone numbers and emails of all licensed teachers in the state’s database. Google hands over anonymous blogger’s IDA $3 million defamation suit against a once-anonymous blogger has been dropped; however, the fact that Google handed over the identity of an anonymous blogger is certainly stirring discussion regarding protected speech on the Internet. Online ethics, credibility and staying in businessBill Mitchell offers a solid examination of a hot issue in journalism ethics in his column “Hoyt’s Donation to NYT Story Raises Question: Can Journalists be Both Contributors and Critics?” http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=131&aid=167312 In it, he describes NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt’s July 18 column about new ways to finance journalism projects. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19pubed.html Hoyt contributed a small sum [...] |
