SNSG 14-Ethics, Ethics, Ethics
"What are the ramifications of writing negative things about administrators who can discipline you or professors who can dock your grade?" 129
SNSG 14
*Notice why these blogs were longer than most? That's because the material is relevant and applicable. And also, these two chapters were very closely related*
These kinds of risks are really stupid. You have to think about how strongly you feel-did the professor do something that deeply offended you or are you just ranting?
I recall in EL 405 Dr Jerz discussed digital photo editing. Since newspapers are supposed to report the truth, we cannot edit photo content. The color/contrast levels-yes. But we can't even change the color of a person's eyes.
Conflicts on interest-as much as I would love to write the articles on theater productions here, I can't. The articles I would write may be very detailed and well-written, but I could be accused of being biased, and there would be nothing I could do to prove I was not. It's just like we were discussing usability testing in EL 236-the material needs to be viewed (or written, as this case would be) by a non-partial party. With partial writers, there is the chance of editorialism. I've never had a conflict of interest arise in my years on the paper.
Plagiarism is really easy to check nowadays. Google can find the origianal source in minutes. And rest assured, if you steal a person's idea or story, it will come back to bite you. Stealing is not something people will usually tolerate.
As for the obsenity issue, it's okay to write those words full out in an article for Rolling Stone, but not for The Setonian. Print the first letter, then asterisk/dash the rest out-chances are people will be able to deduce what f*** implies. Graphic images-that's a case-by-case basis-you have to really analyze the image's relevance to the article.
Tragedy-I've said it all before in previosu blogs-SENSATIVITY. Do not be up in the victims' faces. They may not want to talk to you, and that's okay. Be respectful and people may be willing to talk with you in the future.
"deciding whether and how to cover a suicide is one of the most common and most poignant ethical dilemmas a student editor may face" 133
um, really? one of the MOST COMMON? This area makes me a little uncomfortable, too much to really write that much.
I haven't seen any major ethics issues within The Setonian-we're doing good.
SNSG 14
*Notice why these blogs were longer than most? That's because the material is relevant and applicable. And also, these two chapters were very closely related*
These kinds of risks are really stupid. You have to think about how strongly you feel-did the professor do something that deeply offended you or are you just ranting?
I recall in EL 405 Dr Jerz discussed digital photo editing. Since newspapers are supposed to report the truth, we cannot edit photo content. The color/contrast levels-yes. But we can't even change the color of a person's eyes.
Conflicts on interest-as much as I would love to write the articles on theater productions here, I can't. The articles I would write may be very detailed and well-written, but I could be accused of being biased, and there would be nothing I could do to prove I was not. It's just like we were discussing usability testing in EL 236-the material needs to be viewed (or written, as this case would be) by a non-partial party. With partial writers, there is the chance of editorialism. I've never had a conflict of interest arise in my years on the paper.
Plagiarism is really easy to check nowadays. Google can find the origianal source in minutes. And rest assured, if you steal a person's idea or story, it will come back to bite you. Stealing is not something people will usually tolerate.
As for the obsenity issue, it's okay to write those words full out in an article for Rolling Stone, but not for The Setonian. Print the first letter, then asterisk/dash the rest out-chances are people will be able to deduce what f*** implies. Graphic images-that's a case-by-case basis-you have to really analyze the image's relevance to the article.
Tragedy-I've said it all before in previosu blogs-SENSATIVITY. Do not be up in the victims' faces. They may not want to talk to you, and that's okay. Be respectful and people may be willing to talk with you in the future.
"deciding whether and how to cover a suicide is one of the most common and most poignant ethical dilemmas a student editor may face" 133
um, really? one of the MOST COMMON? This area makes me a little uncomfortable, too much to really write that much.
I haven't seen any major ethics issues within The Setonian-we're doing good.
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"Stealing is not something people will usually tolerate." (Choynowski)
A simple set of parenthesis are all you need in order not to be accused of stealing. I agree that people do not tolerate stealing. Who would? I always hated that someone was looking over my shoulder to get the answers.