by iMediaEthics Staff on Feb 22, 2008
A McCain Affair?
Under a bland headline, “For McCain, Self-Confidence On Ethics Poses Its Own Risk,” the New York Times published an article...
Sensationalism
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 03, 2008
The Impossible Measure of “Dimness”
If the Washington Post uses low standardized test scores as evidence for innate female “dimness,” is the same argument for...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Aug 06, 2008
History repeats itself…in dog days of summer
It was August 2006 in Maine.. a strange creature's carcass was found. Hey, wait a minute. This sounds just like...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Sep 19, 2008
“Atlantic Reaps Traffic Bounty from Photog’s Stunt”
Mixed Media's Jeff Bercovici wrote: "Photographer Jill Greenberg certainly didn't do right by The Atlantic when she posted grotesquely Photoshopped...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Nov 11, 2008
It’s a Rottweiler Photo; Not a Pitbull !
The KRMG Local News AP headline blares--“Woman mauled by large pitbull'-- in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 30, 2008. A photo of...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Dec 08, 2008
New Low from Down Under: Send your Sex Club Photos
The Daily Telegraph in Australia has reached what is possibly a new low in its media ethics. Embedded within a...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Jan 29, 2009
Man ALMOST Attacked By a Pit Bull Is News?
The media in Riverside County, California seems to be determined to get as much mileage out of the mauling death...
by Danielle Elliot on Feb 16, 2009
New York Times Management Mute on O’Reilly Threats
Does media ownership have a responsibility to their staff to defend reporters against suggestions of violence? When Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg said on O'Reilly's...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Feb 20, 2009
Hurtful & Unfair Pilot Blame Game?
Were the pilots, captain Marvin D. Renslow and first officer Rebecca Lynne Shaw, at fault for leaving the auto-pilot on...