Palin’s Wardrobe

The jaw-droppingly biased national media, news commentators who should know better, and too many dim-witted op-ed page letter-writers thoroughly disgraced themselves with their elevation of Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe budget into an ethics “scandal,” when it did not even deserve to be an issue.

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Ifill’s Vanishing Conflict of Interest

Because PBS commentator Gwen Ifill managed to serve as the moderator for the Vice-Presidential debates without any obvious bias surfacing, the controversy over her blatant, tardily disclosed, and serious conflict of interest has vanished without a trace. It shouldn’t. What Ifill did, the fact that she and of many of her fellow journalists dismissed it, and the ethically ignorant way her misconduct was analyzed is both instructive and cause for alarm. The Scoreboard has long suspected that journalistic ethics had deteriorated from aspirational to self-serving to mythical. That suspicion, thanks to the Ifill episode, is nearing conviction.

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Two Professions, Two Ethical Standards

Television and show business, you see, have no code of ethics; nor does journalism, really.

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When Corrections Aren’t Enough

Corrections are fine, but when a newspaper publishes an article that is almost 25% incorrect, inaccurate and out-of-date, they are also insufficient to erase the stain of what is a spectacular demonstration of unethical levels of carelessness, sloppiness, and disregard for the facts.

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