‘Media’ professor asks students to lie to journalists
It would be easy to pile on Peter Chen, the government professor at the University of Sydney who created an assignment that involved pitching made-up stories to the Tharunka student newspaper. Here’s the assignment, according to the paper’s “USYD media assignment not big on ethics” editorial: Project 2: Prank Tharunka Using your understanding of the […]
Fox News says GOP politicians say sequestration is just hype, but fails to notice GOP politicians worried about sequestration
FoxNews.com’s top story is a think piece that quotes plenty of GOP folks saying that the Obama administration is making too much out of the impending mandatory cuts to federal spending. The headline: “Economic Armageddon? Republicans call sequester warnings hype.” (Or, a sexier hed from the site’s front page: Chicken Little Tactics? GOP Points to […]
Walking away for ethical reasons pays off in case of CNET reporter
We recently wrote of CNET News’ problems with its parent CBS, in which the network told its tech news company to remove Dish’s “Hopper with Sling” device as a “Best of CES” product because CBS is suing Dish over the device. CBS hasn’t backed down much, and among the fallout is that Consumer Electronics Show […]