Let me pose another
ethical question.
I work on the NY Stock Exchange floor as a trader.... I take some information I learned about and I go to a online stock trading company who doesn't know who I am and I go make a stock trade based on information I got from the stock exchange floor and make a killing from it.... Ethical or not ethical?
Same rules applies to Kathy here..... No matter how you try to dice and mince it she was ethically wrong in what she did there.
QUOTE(Skyring @ Fri 26th May 2006, 2:31am)
QUOTE(sgrayban @ Fri 26th May 2006, 7:05pm)
Ohhhhh a nice wiki-reversal tatic...... Our ethic's was pointing out that Kathy did not identify herself as a professional journalist working on the Senate floor with access to information that might have beeen used to favour one political party over another. Editing political articles including current Members of Congress where she should have not been in the first place. Further she edited and even went so far as to protect articles pertaining to the Members of Congress which is certainly a bias approach in her ethical position as a Journalist on the Senate Floor. Still don't get it? Take some ethic course's for journalist then.
Errr. I have been a political journalist here in Canberra. Political journos usually have information that favours one side over another. Politicians go out of their way to present information that shows them in a good light and their opponents in a bad light, and they hope that journos will publish the info.
Identifying yourself as a journalist to an interview subject is ethical. But do you have to identify yourself as a journalist when you write a political article? Of course not. Editorials are often political in nature and they are never signed. Likewise news articles of a political nature. Often they are anonymous, especially when syndicated.
Your a political journalist? Oh this is to good to be true and explains exactly why Carr has the misconception that he is always right.
But your arguement still does not mean anything here. Wikipedia is used as a source by many places now. Your implying that its perfrectly acceptable as a political journalist to edit political canidates profiles to reflect either a bad or good agenda under an anoymous name. Nice.......
You scare me a lot now and only confirms my thoughts on contacting each Member of Congress to alert them about "Katefan0" and her edits.