Will the ethics that govern gathering and publishing information in the newspaper apply on the Web -- which in spirit, action and perhaps expectations is yin to the newspaper's yang? And can ethics built on notions of local audience and community standards, rooted in Western democratic traditions, carry over to a medium that publishes to the world? "It's a classic ethical conundrum," says Roy Peter Clark, senior scholar and vice-president of the Poynter Institute for journalism studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., because "two good things are competing against each other." "It's a good thing to fully inform the public and it's a good thing not to offend people on the basis of religion, unnecessarily." More of this article... Search Google News for more quotes by Roy Peter Clark...
