Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “ethics”
Social media’s role should be to bring information to us quickly. Traditional media’s role should be to bring information to us accurately. That distinction came to mind recently after I witnessed the horrendously inaccurate traditional media reporting about the Boston Marathon bombing, which was often fed by an apparent desire …
News outlet ignores basic crisis management in face of massive protest The Steubenville rape trial made national news due to the heavy involvement of social media as evidence, but looked ready to recede from the headlines following the guilty verdict that was handed down to the two young perpetrators. The …
Check your facts, or it’s bound to be crisis management time One of the most important, and often overlooked, building blocks of credibility is making sure you have the facts straight. It’s pretty simple – if you earn a reputation for dishonesty and/or inaccuracy, then nobody is going to believe …
Hard evidence for the importance of fact checking Late last month a PRWeb press release went out stating that Google had acquired Rhode Island-based ICOA Wireless for some $400 million. It’s not unusual for the big G to pick up a smaller company, so what’s the problem? Well, how about …
A recent national poll found American’s faith in traditional media to be holding at extremely low levels, and with no signs of improvement in sight. Here are the numbers, from Gallup.com: Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans …
