Rob’s Megaphone

Media Ethics?
If you were a soldier being shot at . . . . would you want your story told
…… or your life saved?
Media Ethics has become synonymus with $cooping the competition.
When we as citizens depend on the media to give us the truth, we need the fourth estate for checks and balance. Not businessmen concened about their own checks and [...]

David and Goliath analogies predicting the shattering of the traditional press by the new media and citizen journalism has inched closer to fruition according to Bill Kirtz’s Poynter.org column: Future of Journalism: New Media, New Money.  In his commentary covering the “Future of Journalism Conference” held at Harvard, on June 20-21, Kirtz revealed common ground [...]

For years journalists have received mixed reviews.
How do you feel about the job they are doing? Are they ethical? Fair? Accurate?
Media mantras like “If it bleeds it leads” and “Cry and you’ll get on camera,” do much to paint the journalist as unethical and obnoxious. In their rush to be first, news outlets are constantly [...]

Despite recently seeing Disney’s Chicken Little, a lively sequel chock full of incredible claims of falling sky mixed with taunts and teases of angry townsfolk, I realize as I write this column that I may be in for a similar response. Still, I can’t resist sharing my supposition that democracy is in danger of disappearing [...]