How do we reconcile ethics and journalism 2.0?
Writing in Forbes, Jeff Bercovici discussed how a story filed by a student ended up basically costing more than 30 people their lives. The story recounted the burning of a Quran by an insensitive pastor in Florida.
Bercovici's report prompted some excellent comments (very nice to read thoughtful comments instead of the stupidity associated with most of those showing up in Wisconsin newspapers about the political problems) as he talked about how the story was ignored by "legacy newspapers" before being run by a foreign news agency. It's the story of how the traditional ethics and checks and balances seem lost in this era of "empowered citizen bloggers and crowdsourced reporting."
Sometimes progress hurts -- and journalism can kill.
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