There’s been lots of hair-pulling and hand wringing lately about journalistic ethics, or, more accurately, the lack thereof inside and outside of the blogosphere.
Taran Rampersad, in his morph post yesterday, turns the tables on the issue, saying that ethics is to be found in the community, not the media:
You see—the real role of ethics isn’t in the media. It’s in the community—and it always has been. The system as it existed before molecular media created a dependancy on media. Society hoped—and depended on—the media being objective and reporting accurately. In time, society expected it because there just isn’t enough time in the day to challenge the media.
This is the attention economy and the days of sitting back and absorbing media are over. We’re going to have to think and proactively react to media we see as unethical.
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