Comments on: Bribing An Ethical Journalist Only Gets You Mocked http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/12/13/bribing-an-ethical-journalist-only-gets-you-mocked/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sean P. Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/12/13/bribing-an-ethical-journalist-only-gets-you-mocked/comment-page-1/#comment-47827 Sean P. Aune Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:42:24 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=5641#comment-47827 Ms. Jones, Offering compensation for coverage is indeed a bribe, and unethical. Coverage should always be based on its own merits, never on "what'll you give/pay me?" And moral compass for a new decade? I'm sorry, but this rule of journalism is as old as the profession itself. Ms. Jones,

Offering compensation for coverage is indeed a bribe, and unethical. Coverage should always be based on its own merits, never on "what'll you give/pay me?"

And moral compass for a new decade? I'm sorry, but this rule of journalism is as old as the profession itself.

]]> By: Louise Jones http://www.seanpaune.com/2009/12/13/bribing-an-ethical-journalist-only-gets-you-mocked/comment-page-1/#comment-47825 Louise Jones Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:39:05 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=5641#comment-47825 Compensation is hardly a bribe. Aren't you just the high minded, moral compass for a new decade? I think you've probably been insulted more than this - a lot. Compensation is hardly a bribe. Aren't you just the high minded, moral compass for a new decade? I think you've probably been insulted more than this – a lot.

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