Ethics in the Blogosphere
From today's NY Times, Opinion Section, "The Latest Rumbling in the Blogosphere: Questions About Ethics"
"As blogs grow in readers and influence, bloggers should realize that if they want to reform the American media, that is going to have to include reforming themselves."
So apparently many blogs are drafting their own ethical conduct bylaws...The 'ethos' part focuses on journalistic conduct and fact-checking rather than monitoring 'sex, drugs and rock'n roll-type' content, but how long will it be before the question of ethics permeates to the next level? Practicing critical readership is all about doing your own fact-checking. Isn't that why many blogs got started in the first place?
The next generation faces a new cosmos of information that we didn't have: google. A greater investment shall be in finding ways to sharpen minds and encourage critical thinking. Scepticism is feared because it questions stability, but if scepticism were to be a constant state of mind, wouldn't that be a stable state?