Results: Why is it ethical to eat meat?
We discussed this roundly in class, and here are the six top contenders--you can see which was voted as a readers' favorite.http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/20/magazine/ethics-eating-meat.html
Sounds like ...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/20/magazine/ethics-eating-meat.html
Monday, March 19, 2012
On waging opinion, if you are a female writer
Here's a "classic" piece by Naomi Wolf about women sharing their opinion through traditional media, and a more recent reflection on her work by a blogger/musician. Part of her original work has statistics about the low numbers of women writing for top op-ed spaces in major media in the early 1990s. Has that number gotten larger? Smaller? How do we reckon that number in digital spaces? What is the ethical obligation of major media outlets to offer women's voices in their opinion spaces?
By now, you are probably already waiting for my standard exhortation: This could be an excellent final project for our media ethics class ...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
This view of Kony viral video echoes our class discussion from Tuesday
It's a column written by NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/opinion/kristof-viral-video-vicious-warlord.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
It's a column written by NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/opinion/kristof-viral-video-vicious-warlord.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Monday, February 20, 2012
Information about drug arrests at other Texas colleges
Here is a link to a Dallas Morning News story, with stats at the end about other universities in Texas. These numbers indicate that they (and relevant police departments) have a different approach than that used last week:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/fort-worth/headlines/20120216-tcu-reported-just-a-handful-of-drug-arrests-in-recent-years.ece?action=reregister
The weed-out approach, which means there is daily and weekly attention paid to this issue, is a much better pathway, and perhaps delivers the same message to students: that the university handles drug cases with daily vigilance and that violators of the student code of conduct will be removed from campus.
If we think about the case with the values labels from class last week, we might focus on the values of "justice" for all the time, every day, and "humaneness," handling things in a more prosaic way instead of the "big bust" drama of the Fort Worth police department. I say this, because those gotcha photos appeared not only on the arrest warrants, but also in the student paper and again on the front page of the Sunday's edition of the Dallas Morning News.
Here is a link to a Dallas Morning News story, with stats at the end about other universities in Texas. These numbers indicate that they (and relevant police departments) have a different approach than that used last week:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/fort-worth/headlines/20120216-tcu-reported-just-a-handful-of-drug-arrests-in-recent-years.ece?action=reregister
The weed-out approach, which means there is daily and weekly attention paid to this issue, is a much better pathway, and perhaps delivers the same message to students: that the university handles drug cases with daily vigilance and that violators of the student code of conduct will be removed from campus.
If we think about the case with the values labels from class last week, we might focus on the values of "justice" for all the time, every day, and "humaneness," handling things in a more prosaic way instead of the "big bust" drama of the Fort Worth police department. I say this, because those gotcha photos appeared not only on the arrest warrants, but also in the student paper and again on the front page of the Sunday's edition of the Dallas Morning News.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Ethics and social media for the newsroom
So, let's put our labels to work. The link below is to a story about CNN firing one of its on-air commentators for tweeting something seen as anti-gay during the Super Bowl. What values are considered from CNN's standpoint, and how do you make them into principles? Then, how do you write social media policy to allow your journalists to tweet? So, we're moving from value, to principle (and to code of ethics), to media company guidelines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/business/media/twitter-is-all-in-good-fun-until-it-isnt.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=business
So, let's put our labels to work. The link below is to a story about CNN firing one of its on-air commentators for tweeting something seen as anti-gay during the Super Bowl. What values are considered from CNN's standpoint, and how do you make them into principles? Then, how do you write social media policy to allow your journalists to tweet? So, we're moving from value, to principle (and to code of ethics), to media company guidelines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/business/media/twitter-is-all-in-good-fun-until-it-isnt.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=business
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
#PRDefined, Focused on Value-Building ...
... but how does this affect the values of public relations? What happens to values when all the talk is about building value? What happens to values when a profession redefines itself?
There's got to be more going on than just what the word clouds show up. Check out the latest blog post at http://prsay.prsa.org.
... but how does this affect the values of public relations? What happens to values when all the talk is about building value? What happens to values when a profession redefines itself?
There's got to be more going on than just what the word clouds show up. Check out the latest blog post at http://prsay.prsa.org.
Labels: #PRdefined #PRin2012, prsa, public relations
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