Rosen: If bloggers had no ethics, blogging would have failed

Timed perfectly to coincide with the huge failure in the financial markets, Jay Rosen writes about the continuing “bloggers ethics” discussion (a similar discussion was had at the ONA conference last week). I honestly don’t know why blogging and ethics are suddenly hot topics again. His money quote:

If bloggers had no ethics, blogging would have failed. Of course it didn’t. Now you have a clue.

I’d point again to a paper I co-wrote in 2004 on the subject of bloggers and journalistic ethics. It’s available for download here: Bloggers Strike a Nerve.

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