Rupert Murdoch’s weak appearance before a British parliamentary committee yesterday was littered with vague talk of “responsibility” and flat denials of responsibility. Murdoch made the unpersuasive and very large claim that he is in no …
British PM prepares for inquiry
David Cameron announces legal panel, will focus on media ethics, and press-police-politics relationship
Phone-hacking and media consumers: Why is the public off the hook?
Read the analysis of the Murdoch phone-hacking scandal, as it deepens and broadens, and you will search in vain for one salient factor: the British public’s strong support for tabloid journalism and its dubious ethical …
Media phone-hacking: Could it happen here?
Media watchdog groups are pressing for US investigations into newspaper phone-hacking allegations.
Murdoch scandal widens, and tabloids set the agenda
Initial phone-hacking disclosures are spurring more allegations, shaking Murdoch’s media empire
News of the World and the poverty of journalism ethics
The controversy swirling around the closing of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World shows, once again, the dreary truth that journalism is often a poor place to look for serious and honest ethical discussion. Whenever …
Weinergate: Sexting, lies and the mediascape
Journalist and media scholar Katherine Bell analyses the roots of the frenetic news coverage of the Anthony Weiner scandal. The media don’t simply record the first draft of our hyper-mediated history, she writes. They too are marinating in the cultural soup that gave us this most visual of 21st century stories. American media culture, she writes, is “a place where powerful Puritan morals sit next to an obsession with sex, sexuality and the body.”
Mixed reception for govt’s new ‘media strategy’
Online media community divided over new plan requiring websites to register w/Trade Ministry — and Jordan Press Assn.
Why transparency is not enough: The Case of Mr. Mike
Canadian journalist Ira Basen analyzes the seminal case of prominent tech blogger Mike Arrington to underline the confusing and controversial issue of conflicts of interest among “new media” writers such as bloggers. He argues that their mantra, “transparency is the new objectivity,” has limitations. Stating that you are biased or that you have a conflict of interest may not be enough to produce trustworthy journalism. Maybe neutrality – or having no agenda – is still the best ethical approach to good journalism.
Kenyan editors adopt ethics code to fend off regulation
Editors Guild says media have public interest role, calls on journalists to “embrace professionalism and integrity.”