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1. Comment - Blogger Ethics Questioned Over Microsoft Ad

   (Jun 25, 2007 - 3:50 PM)

   When you blog you are acting as and protected as a journalist - no ifs, no ands, no buts. Since journalism is a profession, however, it by definition must have an ethical standard and as you blog you are bound by that ethical standard even as you are absolutely protected by the first amendment. Journalism's ethical standards includes requirements for accuracy and redundant sources, among other things. It also requires truth in advertising, that if you are being paid to say something, you must reveal that fact so that readers can evaluate your credibility as they read your story or blog. Since some did not do that, they have violated those ethics and must again rebuild their credibility from the ground up and loose whatever platform they now have. Credibility and honor are really all a journalist has and they lost it.