For seven years, Zheng Xiaoyu headed China’s Food and Drug Administration–a time in which that agency was filled with scandal, from tainted toothpaste to poisoned pet food. Both animals and people died in large numbers as a result, The New York Times reports.
Mr. Zheng, 62, has been sentenced by the Chinese government to death–not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Events'
In China, Death Sentence for Ethics Conviction
June 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Business Ethics, Ethics in Government, Events, Uncategorized
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Forced Psych Disorder Discharges: Is THIS How the Military “Support Our Troops”? For Shame!
April 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Ethics in Government, Events, Peace and War, Uncategorized
I don’t shock easily–but I am deeply shocked. I m outraged. I’m enraged. I’m bloody furious!
We hear all the time from the Bill O’Reillys, Ann Coulters and Rush Limbaughs of the country that any criticism of the Iraq “mission” is unpatriotic and goes against supporting our troops.
And then this–The Nation reports on numerous cases of [...]
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Haven’t We Learned Not to Rely on Unnamed Sources Before Going to War?
February 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Ethics in Government, Events, Politics, Uncategorized
Huffington Post’s Eason Jordan nailed the problem with recent Iran “revelations”:
After weeks, if not months, of US official planning to present a damning “dossier” of incriminating evidence against Iran, and after this same US administration presented us with lopsided, erroneous information about the capability and evil intentions of the Saddam Hussein regime, the best the [...]
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Happy MLKing Day–Much-Celebrated in Memphis
January 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Events, Media Ethics, Uncategorized
I’m just back from the National Conference on media Reform in Memphis, where much honor was deservedly poured on Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in that city just a few blocks from the conference (now the site of the National Civil Rights Museum).
My reports on the 2005 conference in Saint Louis are posted on my [...]
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Feingold: Iraq is Far More Scandalous than Foley
October 8th, 2006 · No Comments · Ethics in Government, Events, Uncategorized
he all but calls the Foley-lusts-for-boy-pages scandal a distraction from the continuing disaster of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld’s totally failed Iraq policy
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The NORAD 9/11 Tapes: Shocking but Not Incriminating
August 4th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Ethics in Government, Events, General Commentary, Uncategorized
For several years, I’ve wondered about the failure to scramble fighter planes on 9/11 to intercept the hijacked jets. I’ve ready all the conspiracy theories, and agree that the series of coincidences is not plausible, and probably not random. However, now that the transcripts of NORAD’s Northeast control center (NEADS) have been released, it seems [...]
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Justifiable Honors for Katrina Reportage
April 19th, 2006 · No Comments · Events, Media Ethics, Uncategorized
I first learned of the Pulitzers going to New Orleans and Biloxi’s newspapers for Katrina coverage (and heroism)from the blog on journalism published by Poynter.org Some very human reportage of how the newspapers covered the floods.
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A Year in the Blogosphere
January 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Events, General Commentary, Shel's Personal Life
​​​​This blog was launched on December 29, 2004, which means it just
turned one year old. So allow me to wallow in a bit of reflection,
please.
I’d delayed blogging for a long time, because I’d
thought that to be taken seriously, a blogger needed to post daily. I
even tried to organize a group of non-blogging marketing pundits to
each [...]
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Pakistani Earthquake Toll Rooted in Human Corruption
October 21st, 2005 · No Comments · Events, General Commentary
Sigh. Why is it that so often after there’s a natural disaster, if you dig deeply into the cause of the death toll, you find humans taking unconscionable shortcuts in construction…and other humans in charge of safety oversight looking the other way?
Last week, I happened to sit next to a very intelligent and politically aware [...]
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Cool! Someone Wrote A Song About Principled Profit
May 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Business Ethics, Events, Frugality/Frugal Fun, General Commentary, Shel's Personal Life, Uncategorized
Out of the blue this morning, I received a fascinating e-mail:
Hi Shel,
I’m Joel Falconer, lead singer and songwriter of the Gold Coast,
Australia-based Grok Rock band Midnight.Haulkerton. I don’t want to
bother you, but I thought you might be interested in this.
Earlier this year we came up with the idea of the Tuneback. A
Tuneback is a [...]
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