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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.

FORUM COLUMN

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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