When a general overseeing a battle in ancient Persia was approached by a scout reporting that the conflict was going badly, the commander, in a fit of rage, killed the person who had delivered the bad news. Or at least that’s the story that’s been passed down for centuries and in recent decades has resurfaced…
There’s ethics, and then there’s ethics. Ethics of the first order – legitimate ethics – have a solid philosophical basis. Ethics of the second order often have little to do with ethics, but instead are client and/or financially driven. True ethics often center on Immanual Kant’s “categorical imperative,” or duty, to be true to one’s…
Except for a recent Rutgers University study* finding most British newspapers tended to advocate the United Kingdom exit the European Union, Gateway Journalism Review has found little if any research indicating how the media played the Brexit story. While no social science data were apparently collected on the American media’s coverage of this issue, anecdotal…
Sunday was a big sports day in the United States. For the first time ever, a National Basketball Association team came back in the finals after being down 3-1. That same team defeated the Golden State Warriors, which had a 73-9 win-loss record in the regular season. And GSW were implausibly beaten in game seven…
For generations, American journalists have been fooling themselves – and their audience. Unwittingly perhaps, but still fooling themselves. On the one hand reporters – whether print, broadcast, cable, or social media – have trumpeted their U.S. Constitutional, First Amendment “right” to have the personal, individual freedom to report on and publish virtually any and every…