| The Ethical Dilemma of Blogging in the Media
Beeson, Patrick
Quill, April 2005, v93, #3
"Bloggers are a rough-and-tumble lot. They are the publishing cowboys of the media frontier. And like the untamed West, the blogosphere is full of mavericks who fail to think before they write. Even worse is that some of these cowboys refuse to adhere to a set of ethical rules. But this could change, as many notable bloggers push for a code ethics. Like town pastors, these bloggers are preaching the virtue and benefit of being honest, truthful and transparent with readers." Patrick Beeson is a graduate student of journalism at the University of Alabama. He is editor of DatelineAlabama.com, winner of the 2003 SPJ Mark of Excellence award for the nation’s best all-around independent online student publication.
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