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		<title>The  Senator from General Electric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 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.
Once the primary season begins this spring, the airwaves will be swamped with political advertising underwritten by corporations looking to promote their favorite pol. As if that weren’t bad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/blog/the-senator-from-general-electric/</link>
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		<title>Once is Enough for Shocking Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video footage of the luge practice run in which Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed led many news reports as the Vancouver Olympics were about to get under way.
The footage of Kumaritashvili’s forceful accident is blurry but the speed and impact of the crash are apparent and it’s easy to conjure the horror. Because viewers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/ethics/luge/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craig Wright, the former Ohio Supreme Court justice who died last week, was a piece of work.
He could recall the details of an opinion he had written years ago but lose a set of legal briefs while walking 50 feet from the Supreme Court bench to the justices’ conference room.
A rock-ribbed Republican who never met [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/blog/wright/</link>
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		<title>Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop ’08: “Whose Rules?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should journalists attempt to impose order in cyberspace?  Would this even be possible? Does blogging ruin journalism? How has social media changed journalism and what does the future hold?
During “Whose Rules?”, the fourth annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop (Sept. 18, 2008), media practitioners, journalists and online experts attempted to determine whether ethics exist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/ethics/08workshop/</link>
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		<title>Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop ’09: “What Values?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more and more people getting some or all of their news online, the question of journalism values becomes more acute. From traditional media Web sites to company and advocacy sites to blogs, microblogs and social networking sites, information is readily available. But, the authenticity of online content and the veracity of information distributed online [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/ethics/09workshop/</link>
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		<title>The 4-1-1 on 9-1-1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ohio State Sen. Tom Patton wants to outlaw playing 9-1-1 emergency calls even though tapes of such calls are public record. In a Plain Dealer story on Jan. 10, Patton said he is still pushing for his bill (SB105), introduced last April,
to get new hearings in Columbus. Predictably, police and law enforcement groups support Patton’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/ethics/the-4-1-1-on-9-1-1/</link>
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		<title>Ohio GOP seeks teachers&#8217; records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Smith, chair of Kent State&#8217;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&#8217;s database.
For the full story click HERE
The temporary restraining order obtained by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/access/ohio-gop-seeks-teachers-records/</link>
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		<title>Defense secretary criticizes Associated Press over photo of dead Marine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times&#8217; Media Decoder blog discusses recent criticism of the Associated Press&#8217;s release of photos of a Marine moments after he was killed in Afghanistan.
A furious Defense Secretary Robert Gates has upbraided The Associated Press for its decision to go against the wishes of a young Marine’s family and publish a photograph of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/ethics/defense-secretary-criticizes-associated-press-over-photo-of-dead-marine/</link>
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		<title>Google hands over anonymous blogger’s ID</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A $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.
New York model Liskula Cohen originally filed the defamation suit and ordered Google to reveal the identity of the anonymous blogger [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ksumlc.com/blog/google-hands-over-anonymous-blogger%e2%80%99s-id/</link>
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		<title>Jay Rosen&#8217;s &#8220;Ethic of the Link&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ There&#8217; so much to debate when it comes to journalism ethics on the web. One good starting point might be understanding &#8220;the Ethick of the Link.&#8221; With media organizations struggling to decide whether to charge for their content and journalists repurposing much of their work online, understanding links becomes imperative. Check out this brief video of Jay [...]]]></description>
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