Legal Commentary

Journalism Ethics MIA

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Yet again, Glenn Greenwald not only anticipates what I was going to say, he does it better: GE’s silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC’s sleazy use of Richard Wolffe - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com deconstructs today’s NYT article reporting that GE & Murdoch News got together and agreed to clamp down on blowhards O’Reilly and Olbermann.

It’s especially amazing that nowhere in Brian Stelter’s article reporting that a pair of owner/publishers of news/opinion TV shows agreed secretly to muzzle them is there any hint that there might be an journalism ethics issue. No one from a J-school is quoted.

Who muzzled the New York Times? And is the most depressing answer that it muzzled itself.

(Bonus amazement: Charlie Rose either lied about the events he witnessed or didn’t understand their significance any more than did Brian Stelter.)

Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 01, 2009 (boomark / email).