LaHue's Hive for 355

A blog composed for the Fall 2005 semester Internet Newspapers & Magazines course at California State University, Chico. No animals were harmed in the production of this blog.

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Up in the sky!

This isn't my graded post for the week, but a (kind of) relevant cross-post from the House of Hamsters:

This is kind of a journalism ethics class meets Seinfeld thing.

Two great superhero characters--Superman and Spider-Man--have alteregos that are journalists.

Superman, also known as Clark Joseph Kent, is a reporter for the Daily Planet. He utilizes this position to find out about incidents that need his attention quicker.

Spider-Man, also known as Peter Benjamin Parker, is a freelance photographer, primarily working for the Daily Bugle. He makes money by selling J. Jonah Jamison photos of himself as Spider-Man fighting crime.

It's cool to have such famous superheroes be journalists. Yet, are their actions journalistically ethical?

I think I'm just up too late.

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