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more about #ethics more comments → Maulleigh: Ah, leave the poor bastard alone. He gave up the governorship of New York. Hasn't he suffered enough? more » belltolls: The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Trial balloon: The public can offer journalists hookers and blow, cash and vacations, to win their loyalty. #washingtonpost more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: scruples. ethics. discuss. #washingtonpost more » applejuice: What's wrong with thise dudes pic on the main page? It shows up like it is the opposite of the coneheads pic. more » Wrapitup: You can see why Hillary lost to Obama in the primaries right here. The guys from BM (heh)are stuck in their self-made echo chamber of lies and excuses... more » heartbreakturnip: Does anyone else find Burson-Marsteller domain name amusing? Awesome brand management, PR guys! Or am I just being fecal? (See Gottheimer's email add... more » daveyjonesisdead: Mark Penn is not a journalist and is not understood as a journalist. So who cares? Can't we take aim at their anti-Obama "news" stories instead? more » Jasper Reardon: So, there's no denying that the WSJ is having an ethical problem here. A particularly egregious one. But does anyone else find Gawker's attempts at po... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Dear Mr. Penn - I have an old Hypercolor t-shirt you could write about. Kids love the Hypercolors. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: time for a flaming bag of doggie doo on his doorstep, as that is apparently all he is capable of understanding. a disgrace. and the wsj has lost whate... more » Smitros: But if they're both pathetic, isn't it kind of touching that they've found each other? Commonalities are the foundation of a strong relationship. more » Aaron Altman: Let's just co-opt "glamping" already and make it into an adjectival phrase. The Journal really glamped it up on this one. more » MrInBetween: The WSJ wants to keep rewarding The Fail-Master for running Hillary's campaign into the ground. more » BlinkyMcChuck: le ZING... more » -
#irony
Eliot Spitzer will deliver a lecture on ethics at Harvard's Center for Ethics this afternoon. $20 anyone who manages to utter Ashley Dupre near an open mic. -
#journalismism
New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
Revelations surfaced in July that pricey, shady, plainly unethical off-the-record dinners between Washington Post reporters and DC lobbyists were planned. It resulted in the firing of the WaPo's marketing director. Now, the NYT calls out their executive editor. SHOTS FIRED! More » -
#scandals
Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
We were disappointed yesterday when the cowardly Wall Street Journal failed to fire faux-trendspotting flack Mark Penn for using his newspaper column to troll for PR clients. But—hearteningly—both Penn and the paper appear increasingly pathetic!
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#exclusive
Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
Mark Penn, the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal's "Microtrend"-spotting columnist. He's also CEO of PR giant Burson-Marsteller. Only a scumbag would abuse the former to drum up business for the latter.
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#mediacrack
New York Times Kidnapping Conundrum
In your finally Friday media column: The NYT looks ethically inconsistent and its management is mush-mouthed, Bruce Wasserstein contemplates buying BusinessWeek, and Fleet Street dies, unnoticed. More » -
#hardassignments
Media Protests Naked Erin Andrews Pics with Photo Galleries
Oh, how the American media wishes that some sex perv had never secretly recorded a nude video of shapely ESPN reporter Erin Andrews! Then the media would not have been forced to discuss this disgusting spectacle. And make photo galleries!
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#scandal
Scientologist's Legal Advice Burns Sarah Palin
An ethics investigator's report leaked to the press says that Sarah Palin has been "securing unwarranted benefits and receiving improper gifts" through the legal defense fund set up for her by John Coale, the Scientologist husband of Greta Van Susteren.
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#ethics
Washington Post Mistakenly Tells Truth About 'Sponsored' Media Events
The Washington Post sent a flier to DC corporate lobbyists and other scum offering them an exclusive, schmoozy dinner with political officials and Post reporters for only $25,000. Now they're disavowing it! Come now. They were just too honest. More » -
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#losersofmoney
Thomas Friedman Is $75,000 Poorer
Is mustachioed hybrid-hawker Thomas Friedman licking dog food remnants from discarded cans yet? Sadly no, but he must be getting close! First his rich wife's family business went bankrupt. Now he's lost $75K. Just yesterday! More » -
#advertising
Grave-Dancing Insurance Company Teaches You Responsibility
American schools are drug-ridden dens of iniquity, but fortunately we have insurance companies to teach our children values, with TV ads. And whoa, Liberty Mutual has a new 'Responsibility' campaign. Why does that sound familiar? More » -
#media
Dan Abrams Wants to Buy a Few Good Bloggers
Former MSNBC host Dan Abrams, not content with running his shady new conflict-of-interest-laden PR firm for working journalists, now wants to start up his very own "'Drudge meets The Huffington Post' site." Oh good. More » -
#heroes
Chesley Sullenberger Is Even Better Than You Think
Is hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger a normal man, or a superhuman paragon of ethics sent to earth to shame us into being better people? His treatment of an overdue library book points to "superhuman": More »
