March 8th, 2008 Ethics in journalism 2.0 — impossible?
I’ve been obsessed with one topic the last few weeks and I’ve been trying to think of a more professional way to talk about it than just arrrrgggggggghhhhhhh! I guess I failed. Ethics.
ROP pages are down, everybody knows it. At my company, it feels like we’re finally satisfied that this isn’t just a “market fluctuation” and new types of ad programs are being formulated. Great! Maybe.
I thought these packages would focus on the Web and Internet projects — cool ways to get more information and more types of information to more people. It’s not going that way, though. We’re entering the golden age of the advertorial. Barf. The days of separation of church and state are gone.
So, dear reader, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much does your company follow the ASBPE Code of Ethics or similar? There has to be a way for my magazine to make money and for me to keep my ethics.
on March 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
We follow ASBPE and ABM ethics sometimes – only when executive leadership wants us to. They allow us to follow those codes to some point; when they don’t like them, we choose to ignore them. (When I say “we,” I don’t mean the editorial staff. The decision is made and then passed down to us.)