Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Class 9: Ethics and Law

Rights and responsibilities

Codes of conduct

Legal precedent
  • Lawsuits, mostly for defamation
  • State agencies exerting control
    • because terrism
    • criminal behavior

Common practice
  • How we have always done it
Changes
Mortgage holders do not make good investigative journalists
Stateless journalism

The trouble with unnamed sources.
New York Times

This phrase should trigger most BS detectors.

"Unnamed sources speaking on condition of anonymity have suggested..."

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