Ethics Notes: Santa, the Senate, and Snow
Some random thoughts on Santa's weight, snow rescue ethics, and the Senate health care controversies. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Ethics Of Ending Public Broadcasting
The seeming inability of elected officials and politicians to deal with basic decisions involving responsibility, prudence, accountability and honesty is coming into sharp focus as yet another debate...
View ArticleKaty Perry’s Cleavage and Sesame Street Ethics
As fun as it might be, the Katy Perry segment is not essential to Sesame Street's mission, which is educating and socializing pre-schoolers. Insisting on offending the parents of some of these children...
View ArticleComment of the Day #2, On the Pointless Marriage of Bert and Ernie
Here is Comment of the Day #2, on what I will, for this time only, designate as Comment of the Day Friday, as Jeff is inspired by the discussion of bigotry in the continuing discussion generated by...
View ArticleUnethical Quote of the Week: CNN Morning Anchor Carol Costello
Carol Costello, Soledad O'Brien; Soledad O'Brien Carol Costello. Who is the most biased, smug, unethical news host not on MSNBC? Just when I think O'Brien has locked up the prize, Costello comes...
View ArticleEmmy Ethics: Honoring Elmo, Or Honoring A Child Molester?
Some people think it is inappropriate to award three Daytime Emmys for children's programming to Kevin Clash, the Muppets puppeteer whose career as fuzzy red monster Elmo on Sesame Street ended with a...
View ArticleThe Problem Isn’t That MSNBC’s Talking Heads Are “Offensive”…It’s That They...
Really? Only conservatives think it's wrong to ridicule a loving family that, unlike so many white families in the U.S., sees not an African American child in need of a loving home, but a child?...
View ArticleUpdate: Apology Scores For The MSNBC Vicious Three
All of these apologies are pretty much like the other... Continue reading →
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