Chicago Cubune Watch: Day Seven

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Day Seven

A picture of Alfonso Soriano smiling has sat atop the Tribune online sports page for seven consecutive days, and for 17 of the last 29. During that time, a Bears player was involved in a shooting, but there is no bigger news at the Tribune than that Soriano smile.

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"Journalists must avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict." -- from the American Society of Newspaper Editors Code of Ethics

"Journalists should avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived, remain free of associations and activities that may compromise integrity or damage credibility, disclose unavoidable conflicts... deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence news coverage." -- from the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics

"A Newspaper should have no friends." -- Joseph Pulitzer

"Tribune has great resources, but those resources aren’t doing much public good.... That’s why we’d like to see the company sell itself out of the newspaper business." -- The Columbia Journalism Review

Cubune Watchers

Name:Brett Ballantini

Name:Jeff McMahon

Name:Brian Dykes

Name:Keith Makenas

Name:Patrick Sheehan

Name:Lone Ranger

Name:Barbara Gordon

Name:Dan Grillo

Name:William Melvin

Name:Indefatigable Schoolmarm

DEDICATION

This site is dedicated to the memory of former Tribune Public Editor N. Don Wycliff. Wherever you are, Don, we know you're still looking the other way.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Day Seven

ETHICS

Cubune Watchers

DEDICATION