week 8 - the legal environment, cont’d
- Ethics, copyright and other laws
- Should political/news bloggers have a code of ethics?
- Technologies: Creative Commons License
Agenda:
- Framing (ppt)
- Pro-Con Discussion: Should political/news bloggers have a code of ethics?
- Break
- Reading Discussion
- Third genre: the persuasive post
Ethics
- A Brief History of Digg Controversy (2006)
- The Day The Digg Users Revolted (2007)
- From Rebecca Blood
- MediaBloggers
- Cyberjournalist - Draft Code (see comments)
- From ObilvyPR
- Medical Blogger Code of Ethics
- SPJ code of ethics
- PRSA code of ethics
Student Discussion:
- (Nicole B) Blood, R. (2002). Weblog Ethics. In The Weblog Handbook. Perseus Books Group.
- (Khairun) Lessig, L. 1999. Chapter 1 and 5. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books [eReserve]
The Persuasive Post - Resources
- Example: Cleveland Plain Dealer - John McCain
- Example: Daily Pennsylvanian - Hillary Clinton
- Example: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel - Barack Obama
- How to write a persuasive article
- 10 Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
- Editorial Rubrics
- Strategies for Writing Persuasive Letters
pro:
- actually focuses on politics or blog attached to a media outlet
- greater argument - is blogging considered an act of journalism (reference to earlier reading)
- people are turning to blogs as a source of news - obligation to readers to follow copyright
- if we are going to call them the 5th estate
con:
- thomas jefferson - he would rather have newspapers over government rather than the other way around
- $ for membership
- quote from PRSA code of ethics re whistleblowing and requirements to whistleblow
- marketplace of ideas (and google)
break for rebuttal
con rebuttal
- bloggers as jrls - national conventions
no editor or higher power or time schedule
- bloggers aren’t doing it for the money (no sub)
- you don’t find bloggers falsifying facts because too many eyeballs
- can keep it simple - always update, add more links
pro rebuttal
- constitution - country was founded on a set of guidelines, written down, an bloggers should have guidelines too
- code of ethics would not zapp any of the humanistic elements of blogging
- we don’t mean that you have to join an organization to be ethical
- bigger argument that we’ve been focused on this quarter: blogging is a true form of journalism and to be respected and credible bloggers need to sub
kegill
22 May 2008