Karen G, Schneider, Director, Librarian’s Internet Index
- Why ethics matter (micro)
- [M: I lost this bit]
- Why ethics matter (macro)
- The harder we work to make the world a moral place, the better it is for everyone
- “books are for use”: we are a profession defined by our concerns for others
- rules to blog by
- Transparancy
- Fairness
- Cite it
- Get it right
- Be Fair
- Admit Mistakes
- Two other codes of ethics
- Rebecca Blood
- Only facts you believe to be true
- Link to it
- …
- Cyberjournalist.net
- Be honest & fair
- Minimize harm
- Be accountable
- 5 things not to say
- It’s only a blog
- So and so does it
- Everyone understood what I menat
- They can always look it up
- Nobody trusts the web anyway
- Define: Transparancy
- “An activity is transparent if all information about it is open and freely available”
- “For most blogs, we want to know what the writer’s starting point is.”
- Transparence tools
- The blogosphere is skeptical
- Jeff Gannon
- Claimed to be a White House correspondent
- Transparency tools
- A clear about page
- Can be humorous
- Must be true
- Full disclosure about conflicts, biases or vested interests
- A commitment to honest about who you are and what drives your writing
- Lack of transparency can catch up with you
- Don’t try to be something your not, they will find you out
- Transparency can be Strategic
- Groklaw
- Transparency minimized Fisking
- The act of critiquing in detail with intent of challenging its conclusion or theses by highlighting logical fallacies and incorrect facts
- Memogate
- Cite It
- Michael Gorman
- “Revenge of the Blog People”
- Tips for good citations
- Link to and name your sources
- Avoid anonymous sources
- Always check a secondary source
- Get it Right
- Judy Miller, NY Times
- “The quality of being near to the true value”
- “Investigative reporting is not stenography”
- Being Wrong has Consequences
- “There is nothing more pathetic than a librarian who gets the facts wrong”
- How to get it right
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- don’t publish until you check your facts
- re-check your facts after you publish
- Tips for accuracy
- dual source
- link to your sources
- Be Fair
- Bill O’Reiley
- Define: fairness
- “the attitude of being just to all”
- “giving people an equal chance”
- “not letting partialit stand int he way of what is right”
- Fairness Tips
- let a source know when he is “on the record”
- you can be opinioniated but don’t present opinion as fact
- if you claim to be objective, then you better damn well present all sides of hte issue
- let your readers comment (within reason)
- Adimt Mistakes
- Bill Clinton
- define: mistake
- “to choose wrongly”
- a mistake can be an error of judgement or fact
- Addressing mistakes in blogs
- be direct, alert your readers
- add to or modify posts
- explain the mistake and the correction
- Ethics Exception
- the intentionally unreliable narrator
- justinland.typepad.com
- April Foolery
- RFID Implats: The New Library Cards
- Well-KNown Humor Sites
- The Onion
- When in doubt, Do what you know to be right
