{"id":921,"date":"2005-12-21T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=921"},"modified":"2005-12-22T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T12:54:32","slug":"journalism-ethics-and-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/journalism-ethics-and-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism ethics and blogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a call last night from a local reporter, Matt Dees, who part of the crew doing a series of stories on a sordid murder in Clayton. Three members of the family involved had\/have blogs. Two of those members are kids in high school with Xanga and mySpace blogs. We chatted a bit about blogs in general. I wondered a little about reporting from the blog of a kid who is underage and acting out different identies on his\/her blog. I pointed out that most kids even in college, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/ibiblog\/?p=154\">see Fred&#8217;s facebook study on privacy<\/a>, don&#8217;t think so much about just how much they reveal about themselves.<br \/>\nAfter we spoke, I went to the sites. Then I wrote Matt this note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>thinking since we spoke. how ethical is it for a professional journalist to quote from the blog of an underaged child (even a punk rocker)? if we agree that kids don&#8217;t actually understand that what they are writing in public, does that mean that their writings aren&#8217;t really fair game for news stories?<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t have the answers here i&#8217;m just wondering now that i&#8217;ve seen zzzzz&#8217;s  site. obviously he&#8217;s trying on identities and he has friends who support him, but won&#8217;t he look weird to most folks reading the nando? does he deserve a kind of privacy that he didn&#8217;t seek for himself? should say kxxxxx&#8217;s or lxxxxx&#8217;s phone number be news or should it be protected? what is okay to use? remember we&#8217;re not talking about adults who should in theory be more aware. not even students at ncsu who put up pics of  themselves with beer&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/editor\/index.php?title=what_not_to_post&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">News and Observer editor Melanie Sill has a blog entry<\/a> about this issue and about not playing the 911 tape. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/editor\/index.php?title=what_not_to_post&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1#comments\">There are many reader comments too.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a call last night from a local reporter, Matt Dees, who part of the crew doing a series of stories on a sordid murder in Clayton. Three members of the family involved had\/have blogs. Two of those members are kids in high school with Xanga and mySpace blogs. We chatted a bit about blogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}