Ethics and blogging

James Joyner has an excellent post over at OTB on blogging ethics. Go over and read the whole thing.

Personally I don't see a problem in James taking the offer of a trip to Holland for he and his wife. I know he would have disclosed this in any future posts on that country. Note to James- If he don't want to take the offer, I will. ;) LOL.

As to ethics in general, I believe in keeping it simple. Long sets of rules and laws are counter-productive, a blogger, a journalist or a politician or anyone in fact should know what is right or wrong. I forget where I read it, but someone wrote if you have to write down your ethics rules, the battle is already lost. TFM totally agrees with that statement.

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