ethics
Flotsam & Jetsam
‘PR Pros Ethical Thinkers’, Lie PR Pros
12:35AM Hamilton Nolan | A new study from a PR industry-connected research group has definitively proven that PR people are nearly as moral as dental students. Which has to be pretty good, no? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
New York Times Kidnapping Conundrum
3:46AM Hamilton Nolan | In your finally Friday media column: The NYT looks ethically inconsistent and its management is mush-mouthed, Bruce Wasserstein contemplates buying BusinessWeek, and Fleet Street dies, unnoticed. More »
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Nekkid Erin Andrews Haunts The Media’s Soul
11:39PM Hamilton Nolan | Oh, how the American media wishes that some sex perv had never secretly recorded a nude video of shapely ESPN reporter Erin Andrews! Then the media would not have been forced to discuss this disgusting spectacle. And make photo galleries! More »
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NYT Tells Staff To Report Speaking Fees, Already
2:05AM Hamilton Nolan | This note went out to NYT staffers yesterday evening, in the wake of Pulitzer prize winning columnist Tommy Friedman having to return a $US75K speaking fee, because Tommy Friedman cannot read: More »
Supernanny Makers’ ‘Ethics’ Land Them In The Naughty Seat
10:16AM Clem Bastow | If we are to believe everything we see on TV, Supernanny Jo Frost is a miracle worker whose no-nonsense advice and Continental “pass-tah and soss” meals are the only way to get screaming todlers to shut up.
All well and good, were it not for emerging allegations – made by a decorated and respected UK filmmaker – that the tots weren’t all that bad to begin with, and that Supernanny crewmembers bullied them into chucking more tele-worthy tantrums. More » 