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Friday Failure: Journalists Who Won’t Vote
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Padmini Mangunta
Most of us have a love/hate relationship with the media…sometimes we love it, sometimes we hate it (and sometimes I love to hate how I’m a part of it). Still, one of the fundamentals of most democratic societies are the voices that speak to us under the banner of the free press, and I’d maintain…
Kanye West, Serena Williams, Joe “You lie” Wilson: A Trifecta of Public Figure Tantrums
By
hfields
Paddy and I thought we’d toss in our two cents on the whole civility debate. After all, we’d hardly be an “Everyday Ethics” blog if we didn’t have an opinion on everyday cultural behavior trends. So here goes. Hillary: The country’s buzzing with the news. The blogosphere is awash with disapproval. We’re all aghast: People…
If Obama Calls Kanye A Jackass Off The Record, Does It Make A Sound?
By
hfields
It does if Terry Moran (Moron?) tweets it. So, the civility debate rages (ironically) on. And as everyone’s buzzing, the president’s now caught up in it, having remarked off the record in a CNBC interview that he thought Kanye West was a jackass after Kanye’s Taylor Swift-boating stunt at the VMAs. ABC reporter Terry Moran tweeted…
“You Lie!” No, YOU Shame Your Country, Joe Wilson.
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hfields
Yelling “You lie!” at your president during an address to the joint session of congress. Just… wow. Does disrespect come any more egregious, more shameful, more heinous? If it does, I can’t imagine it. Is it because our president is young? Liberal? Black? None of the above? All of the above? I honestly can’t imagine…
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