Miami Herald | Columbia Missourian
"In today's newsroom environment, just about everybody who screws up, regardless of how serious the offense or how forgivable the sin, gets fired," writes
Edward Wasserman. "Almost invariably, the firing is justified in the language of ethics." He says the new, greater willingness by news orgs to confess wrongdoing is a positive change, "but what's with the vindictiveness, the self-righteousness, the callousness with which media bosses respond to even marginal instances of misconduct?" || Related
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