By Jerry Lanson "A sweeping study released this March on the state of U.S. journalism offers more bad news for mainstream media outlets and the people who write, edit and produce them."

By Jane Singer "...although the "John Kerry and the Intern" story instantly flew around the Internet and dominated the conservative talk radio circuit for a day or two in mid-February 2004, similarities to the 'Bill Clinton and the Intern' story more or less ended there... The ethical combination of temperence and transparencey served [the press] well."

By Valerie Alia "...The problem with media ethics education is not the presence of secular and religious ethical philosophies but the narrowness of the philosophies surveyed, the people they include and represent (and exclude), and the contexts in which they are used."

By David Kittross "...In the last few years, non-profits have found themselves under increased scrutiny by the media. Why?"

By Jagadish B. Rao "Everybody seems to be a writer these days, but are there any readers?"

By Val E. Limburg "...Today, more than any other time I remember, imprecise, overstated, half-complete and, yes, 'slovenly' language confronts us daily in the media."

By Claude-Jean Bertrand "...'There is far more press criticism,' notes R. Koven (World Press Freedom Committee), 'in the old days, there was a sense of propriety. Journalists were not supposed to talk about their own troubles.' Now the media increasingly often are the story."

By Gregory Payne "...An important component of any truly democratic society-open and diverse media channels free of government or other political control-are not yet evident in Azerbaijan, but this country of over 8 million people does have active proponents laying its groundwork."

By Russell Frank "...I had been surprised by how lurid these accounts [in the American press of suicide bombings in Israel] were and was curious to know why reporters were writing them, why editors were waving them through and how readers were reacting to them."

By Russell Frank "When journalists are caught in an ethical lapse, the story they were working on becomes like a dead and rotten thing that has washed up on the beach. Other journalists might poke it with a stick, but nobody wants to get too close. And it is everyone's fervent hope that the tide will carry the carcass back out to sea so that nobody has to deal with it."