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- AmyVernon, on 10/22/2009, -0/+13Swag orgy. Sounds kinky.
- Pyehole, on 10/22/2009, -1/+11What's absurd is the FTC's new rules on full disclosure for bloggers. These guys working for mainstream news organizations don't need to tell you that they got free product or free trips but if you have a word press blog or you tweet about things you do. How the ***** does that make any sense?
- robertbaker13, on 10/22/2009, -0/+8Bloggers don't have lobbyists. Makes perfect sense.
- TheBlueVulcan, on 10/22/2009, -0/+8While I respect the intent of the article, I can't get behind it potentially screwing up future assignments for a freelancer. As one who lives in the Bay Area and works in the journalism industry, I know a lot of freelancers, most of whom are barely scraping by. I just hope the Times doesn't hold him accountable to the same rules as their staff, as he's not a full-time employee and shouldn't be treated like one.
- pacman122, on 10/22/2009, -0/+6Misleading title!!
- znicket, on 10/22/2009, -0/+5But shouldn't a freelancer still adhere to the same standards of integrity?
- znicket, on 10/22/2009, -0/+4I understand the difficulty in juggling many obligations but isn't there an overriding principle of impartiality? Each individual company may package this principle in various ways but if you are writing as a journalist there exist in the mind of the reader an assumption of impartiality. Anything that threatens that impartiality should be disclosed, like BlueVulcan suggested, or simply avoided.
- brentjholmes, on 10/22/2009, -0/+4that is the lamest orgy story i've ever read
- kaelyiesta, on 10/22/2009, -0/+3Yay corporatism!
- TheBlueVulcan, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1Honestly, I don't know if I can answer that. I would think that, as long as the freelancer is up-front about what he's accepted, the publication(s?) he's worked for can assign him articles that would not conflict with anything he's received.
- algaeturd, on 10/22/2009, -1/+2LOL @ using ethics and journalism in the same paragraph.
It's 2009...journalistic ethics is a thing of the past. All it took was for one network (ahem, won't mention the 3-letter word) to show that Americans don't give a ***** about standards or ethics and prefer infotainment to actual news and it all slid downhill from there.
Why try to educate a bunch of people who just want to be entertained? They don't want to think. They don't want to learn. Very few even want to read. And when they do, they want to learn about Megan Fox's pinky or Paris Hilton's ex-boyfriend or the latest celebrity rehab.
Tell those ***** at Newsweek if they get fired for breaking journalistic 'ethics' they can always get a job over at Fox doing 'the serious, hard-hitting news.' - robertbaker13, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1Yeah, you're right, Megan Fox is totally hot.
- crossmr, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1Not if they're not working for and representing the company at the time. Freelancers may work for many companies at once. Trying to balance all of those obligations (especially if there are conflicting ones) would be a nightmare. Freelancers should only be responsible to the company when they're on the clock.
- darwinwins, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1i was expecting more.
- znicket, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1I understand the difficulty in juggling many obligations but isn't there an overriding principle of impartiality? Each individual company may package this principle in various ways but if you are writing as a journalist there exist in the mind of the reader an assumption of impartiality. Anything that threatens that impartiality should be disclosed, like BlueVulcan suggested, or simply avoided.
- FunnyData, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1is it newsweek or newslies
- rebrad, on 10/22/2009, -0/+1These guys might as well enjoy themselves while they can. The NYTimes and Newsweek are dying a lingering but certain death from rot and decay. When they're cooking fries at McDonald's or making subs at Subway these kind of trips will only be fond memories.
- monvalley, on 10/22/2009, -0/+0Shame, shame; I thought Obama ordered that no one, except government officials could take junkets; the days of corporate trips to Los Vagas are over, he said.
- inactive, on 10/22/2009, -1/+1Especially David Pogue and Walt Mossberg. They have Apples PR penis embedded so far up their rectums that they ain't never coming down.
They have prostituted their credibility to Apple, and shill for them at every opportunity in return for a few crumbs of "exclusives". The words "Mossberg" and "Pogue" are bywords for corruption and lack of integrity. They are a disgrace to the journalism profession. - Myztry, on 10/22/2009, -1/+1They can't have an ethics policy. Ethics are subjective. A behavioural policy perhaps?
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