{"id":14030,"date":"2012-05-02T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14030"},"modified":"2012-05-02T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:53:35","slug":"what-has-happened-to-media-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14030\/what-has-happened-to-media-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has Happened to Media Ethics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is one issue to discuss racially motivated violence, and the many relevant questions raised thereby. That is not the purpose of this blog post, even though elsewhere I have been heavily covering<\/a> a similar incident<\/a> in Mobile<\/a>. Instead, this is to express absolute bumfuzzlement at the atrocious journalistic ethics at the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot, which buried for two weeks<\/a> the story of two of their own reporters getting beaten up by a huge mob in what appears to have been a random, racially motivated attack.<\/p>\n

This defies belief. Forget, for a moment, that these are its own reporters. No matter who the victims were, this was news. Here was the question the columnist wrote, rhetorically, in explaining her paper’s lack of coverage: “In this case, editors hesitated to assign a story about their own employees. Would it seem like the paper treated its employees differently from other crime victims?\u201d<\/p>\n

Huh? Would editors really not<\/em> cover such a story if they knew about it, if the victims were anybody other<\/em> than their own employees? That’s even a worse admission, or claim, than to say they didn’t want to over-cover their own employees. How can any editor worth a bleeping bleepity bleep possibly fail to cover a story of a beating like this one? By any measure, any standard, and all common sense, this is news.<\/p>\n

Once again, “journalistic ethics” in this country appears to be a massive oxymoron.<\/p>\n

News should not be spiked. This was an example of spiked news. For shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is one issue to discuss racially motivated violence, and the many relevant questions raised thereby. That is not the purpose of this blog post, even though elsewhere I have been heavily covering a similar incident in Mobile. Instead, this is to express absolute bumfuzzlement at the atrocious journalistic ethics at the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3515,3516,3514],"class_list":["post-14030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-beating","tag-mob","tag-virginia-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14032,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14030\/revisions\/14032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}