Discipline
Mar. 9, 2007
Court Misuses Media Ethics
Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The California Supreme Court made a mistake when it elevated voluntary journalism ethical guidelines to a legal standard.
By Clay Calvert
For some people, the mere thought of the concept of an ethical journalist elicits easy - almost too easy - laughter, as the transparent punch line to a joke about things that only will happen when hell freezes over in an era of global warming.
Scandals from the recent past involving journalists who fabricated facts, piped qu...
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