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Ethics Crisis

As I nervously double and triple-checked my efforts, she appeared. "What are you doing?" she asked. "Just testing a beta of a site on Windows. You were upstairs so I knew your computer was available."

She didn't have a clue (like usual). I nearly had a heart-attack and a pink slip to match.

....What we need is more good, strong, moral outrage: the kind that gets politicians thrown out of office and forces dishonest business leaders to face spend some honest time reflecting on their lack of probity . . . in jail."

“Jeff could have inherited an ice-making company or a coffee house and he’d still have wanted to see how it could be used for a broader social purpose,” said Dave Aznavorian, Timberland’s global brand manager.

Schwarz acknowledges that he also needs to deliver results to shareholders. He says that changes in fashion have led to a downturn in Timberland sales that could result in selling the company. He says he'd give up control for more power, but that he'd never sell and walk away like Ben & Jerry's owners did. They sold the company and went home,” said Swartz. Swartz would have to be carried out with his [Timberland] boots on.

Hey, at least the New York Times credited Radar Online as its source. Now that's pretty ethical.

I've always wondered what you would need to teach honest people about ethics, and whether any code could make dishonest people more honest.

Building codes, health codes, fire codes have teeth. Violating them results in legal penalties. But nothing at all seems to happen to those who violate corporate or association codes of ethics, not even a slap on the wrist. If corporate ethics codes are to hold any meaning, they'll need the force of law behind them. Otherwise. what's the point?

He questions whether reporting on recent grid attacks that have brought down the world gives the attackers an award by giving them publicity. He writes: "Attentive readers may be inclined to see parallels to conundrums from real world journalism-- for example, when the media gives prominent coverage to a minor terrorist attack, are they just reporting the news, or unintentionally becoming an abettor after the fact, while unnecessarily alarming the public?"