All Entries Tagged With: "Reporters Without Borders"

Ethics in Blogging

It’s too bad, I believe, that the phrase, “fair and balanced,” has been turned into a form of bad joke by Fox News. Today’s style of media reporting – whether mainstream or online – is in dire need of being more fair and balanced, especially as online media grows in influence.

I was reviewing Dan Gillmor’s [...]

Web 2.0’s Wild West Days

Web 2.0, the Internet’s interactive phrase, is on the verge of becoming out of control with tools, toys and hype. It’s akin to the wild west days of the tech boom in the 1990s, except today it should have become more professional, ethical and honest. Not so.

Like distant cousins of Professor Harold Hill, there [...]

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents

In today’s world of intense message chaos, blogs have provided an effective online channel for expression of voice and words. But, what are the rules, best practices and ethical boundaries in the vast blogosphere?
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has made available online and for free download its “Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents.” It is [...]