In his first interview since 1991, Warwick Fairfax warns “We’re all capable of being corrupted.”
Month: July 2011
Chicago TV station admits ethical blunders
CBS affiliate’s edited interview with 4-year-old boy was highly misleading, prejudicial.
Phone-hacking: The upside and downside for journalism
The feverish pace of developments in Murdoch-gate stirs emotional calls for a change in how journalists do their work, and in how society restrains unethical journalists. In the days ahead politicians and others will surely …
Why Murdoch is “responsible” for phone-hacking scandal
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 …
Why Murdoch is “responsible” for the phone-hacking scandal
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 …