Tag Archives: ethics

Link Ch. 14 – Should a student photographer be asked to change the color of the sky?

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

Back in 2008, there was a a big debate going on over at SportsShooter.com as to whether it was proper for a college newspaper adviser to tell a photographer that he needed to make the sky bluer in a photo of an MLK … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 14 – An Astrophotographer Talks Digital Manipulation

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

Space photographer Jerry Lodriguss talks about the ethics of digitally manipulating their images.  It’s not just press photography where this is an issue. The Ethics of Digital Manipulation

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Link Ch. 14 – Spock Explains Principle of Utility

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

In the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the emotionless Spock performs a rational yet selfless act. He saves the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise by entering a reactor room to prevent an explosion that would have … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 14 – When is a headline offensive?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

There’s a heartwarming story that’s been up on the Interwebs this week about President Obama giving a speech on energy policy at St. George Community College.  Stephon, a deaf student had front-row seating for the event, got to shake the … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 4 – A Million Little Memoir Fabrications

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

Reprinted from my blog from January 27, 2006: A Million Little Problems Dept. – Fall Out From James Frey’s Fabrications A week or so ago I ran a guest commentary by my colleague John Temple about his outrage at the apparent fabrications … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 6 – Should Reporters Call Out Sources For Lying?

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

The NY Times public editor really set off a bit of a firestorm today with his column.  In it, Arthur Brisbane asks, apparently seriously, whether reporters ought to be calling out sources for claiming things as “facts” that are demonstrably … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

How Can You Write a Better Blog? Some great suggestions from Dan Frommer, author of the tech blog SplatF. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Accuracy, readable, skeptical, attributed, context, critical but fair, mechanics, original, new. Why Does Scooby-Doo Need People … Continue reading →

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Joe McGinniss responds to Janet Malcolm’s “The Journalist and the Murderer”

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

In 1989, journalist Janet Malcolm published two-part series of articles in The New Yorker under the headline “The Journalist and the Murderer.” (It has since then been published as a slim book.) In what would come to be one of … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Can a woman express opinions on the Internet without threats of sexual violence? Laurie Penny has her doubts.  Should we be frightened that Harry Potter director David Yates is working on a big screen Dr. Who reboot? Ashamed to say … Continue reading →

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Patriot-News Devotes Front Page to Editorial on Penn State Scandal

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran a front-page editorial on Tuesday calling on Penn State University President Graham Spanier to resign over his failure to “do what is right – for his school, or more importantly for the alleged victims of coaching … Continue reading →

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