Ethics in Media and Culture

What are the pros and cons of open-source journalism? When citizens create their own news, objective reportage can suffer. On the other hand, citizens may turn out to be more reliable and provide more points of view than regular media. What do you think?

What are the issues we face when we get our news from ordinary citizens?Can regular people produce quality journalism with just an internet connection and an opinion? 

Most people are either Beatles fans or Rolling Stones fans. For some, it's about more than just the music. It's a personality issue, and a lifestyle issue. Which band do you prefer, and why?

CBS plans to play an anti-abortion advertisement during the Superbowl. Many argue it's not the right place and time. But is there an appropriate place for it anywhere on TV? Would it be appropriate during any major network broadcast?

Norman Mailer, in a final interview with Terry Gross, speculated that one day, books will become obsolete. The Kindle and other portable devices, along with companies like Google, are converting the world of paper to a world of pixels. Books, and information, are being pixelated. Are books going away? Are publishers bound to suffer the same fate as record companies? Anyone can publish their book online. Or plagiarize one. It could be as simple as copying and pasting.

BY BARTON BUND, THE BLACKBIRD THEATRE

The staged reading at the Blackbird Theatre of Barton Bund's new musical about the events surrounding the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a revolutionary group, which justified its acts of violence against others on the grounds that such means were necessary to change an unjust and oppressive American society, has triggered a chain of memories.

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Originally submitted by: Barton Bund, The Blackbird Theatre

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