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AT BIG JOURNALISM, AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE JOURNALISTIC ETHICS: We Call On the MSM to Adopt the ?Ros?

By Glenn Reynolds

AT BIG JOURNALISM, AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE JOURNALISTIC ETHICS: We Call On the MSM to Adopt the ?Rose/O?Keefe Standard of Journalistic Transparency?.

With their most recent undercover video investigations, independent journalists James O?Keefe and Lila Rose have set a new standard of transparency in the field of journalism ? a standard I call on all media outlets ? print, online, and broadcast ? to adopt and to institute immediately. Within hours of releasing what the AP called ?heavily edited? video footage of a high-powered NPR executive?s troubling statements with respect to the Tea Party, conservatives, and Jewish control of the media, Mr. O?Keefe then released to the public the full, unedited two-hour video of the entire conversation. Another New Media pioneer, Lila Rose, also released the full video of her undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood.

When will Dateline and 60 Minutes start doing the same? Plus this: “Because Mr. O?Keefe and Ms. Rose have led the way in journalistic transparency and taken the first step, as a show of good faith from the MSM in accepting this offer, we call on Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric to release every frame of video involving their 2008 interviews with then Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).