I digged some old news but related with the ethics topic we covered this week. It's about Terry Moran tweeting about President Obama's off-the-record comments to his followers. To me, that is very unethical for a media worker/journalist.
Terry interviewed President Barack Obama, and during the interview, they talked about Kayne West off the record. Maybe Mr. President gave his comment about Kayne West by calling him a jackass for grabbing microphone from other singers (Taylor Swift). Terry, however, tweeted this off-record comment to his 1-million followers.
This "news" later became a hot topic. Like Chaofan's post, this is a good example of social media being a drama queen. There's news titled Obama Calls Kanye West a 'Jackass' and even Obama Caught on Tape Calling Kanye 'Jackass'. I cannot believe journalists being so mean to a up-front, honest president.
Of course there are ethics and rules you need to follow even in social media world. This platform supports open, free speech, while at the same time, journalists should keep their ethics of traditional media---no plagiarism, tell the truth, and most importantly respects other people's human rights.
Also, we want to leave a tip for the president: in such a dramatic social media world, watch your language will be the safest way to protect yourself.
4 comments:
this shows the power of social media, it can makes you a president, it can also catch your even tiniest fault and making it well known to the public and fail you
Yes, it is amazing how individuals loose ethical conduct in cyber space (Example: the CEO of Whole Foods posting anonymous negative posts on Yahoo message boards about competitors). I'm not how this sort of thing will ever stop. Would an internet code of ethics work?...probably not.
I think it's important for us to keep good PR practices in mind when we are writing something for any organization. Regardless of what information we relay to our publics, we need to utilize the PR foundations that we have learned.
Good points, everyone. I second what you all said, and I think an effective code of ethics should be established and followed by all netizens!
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