Comments on: Concerned about ethics in the media? Join the People’s Republic of South Devon. Writers, artists, photographers wanted http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2009/10/28/concerned-about-ethics-in-the-media-join-the-peoples-republic-of-south-devon-writers-artists-photographers-wanted/ The People's Republic of South Devon is a left-leaning magazine that champions lesser covered local news along with national and global issues. We value diversity, equality, participation and solidarity. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2009/10/28/concerned-about-ethics-in-the-media-join-the-peoples-republic-of-south-devon-writers-artists-photographers-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-131506 Nick Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:32:05 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=8168#comment-131506 'Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!).' Is that AA Gill coming over the hill with a rifle, ready for a Totnes shoot out. I think some will have to buy the Baboons their own Duck House for their own protection via the fees office! Think I might just turn the oven on.... ‘Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!).’

Is that AA Gill coming over the hill with a rifle, ready for a Totnes shoot out. I think some will have to buy the Baboons their own Duck House for their own protection via the fees office!

Think I might just turn the oven on….

]]> By: Bill Bailey http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2009/10/28/concerned-about-ethics-in-the-media-join-the-peoples-republic-of-south-devon-writers-artists-photographers-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-131363 Bill Bailey Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:17:29 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=8168#comment-131363 While I agree with Nick that there can be some muddying of traditional right/left issues, surely there are some 'ethics' we can all agree on. Doctoring images to twist the Question Time story (that would be the Daily Mail), or Jan Moir spewing hateful homophobia (Daily Mail again), or falsely accusing a police commander of being a bigamist (Daily Mail), or falsely claiming Oliver Twist beat up his ex-wife (Daily Mail)... Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!). I'd say it's not really a question of ‘if I say it is so, then I must be ethical' - it's more to do with aspiring to 'be better' and holding yourself to account. Of course, Charles Foster Kane had exactly the same declaration of principles and look how that turned out! While I agree with Nick that there can be some muddying of traditional right/left issues, surely there are some ‘ethics’ we can all agree on.

Doctoring images to twist the Question Time story (that would be the Daily Mail), or Jan Moir spewing hateful homophobia (Daily Mail again), or falsely accusing a police commander of being a bigamist (Daily Mail), or falsely claiming Oliver Twist beat up his ex-wife (Daily Mail)…

Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!).

I’d say it’s not really a question of ‘if I say it is so, then I must be ethical’ – it’s more to do with aspiring to ‘be better’ and holding yourself to account.

Of course, Charles Foster Kane had exactly the same declaration of principles and look how that turned out!

]]> By: Nick http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/2009/10/28/concerned-about-ethics-in-the-media-join-the-peoples-republic-of-south-devon-writers-artists-photographers-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-131327 Nick Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:12:49 +0000 http://www.peoplesrepublicofsouthdevon.co.uk/?p=8168#comment-131327 Ethics tend to be a very muddy ground. Even if your bouncing both left and right or reading John Grey's Enlightenment's Wake. One of those cases where everybody thinks they are right and everybody else is wrong, as in PMQ's every week. In fact it has got to a point in both our politics and the media of all forms, where the only arguement tends to be - 'if I say it is so,' then I must be ethical. Therefore, where is one to go from here? Ethics tend to be a very muddy ground. Even if your bouncing both left and right or reading John Grey’s Enlightenment’s Wake. One of those cases where everybody thinks they are right and everybody else is wrong, as in PMQ’s every week. In fact it has got to a point in both our politics and the media of all forms, where the only arguement tends to be – ‘if I say it is so,’ then I must be ethical. Therefore, where is one to go from here?

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