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by Marian Wang, ProPublica New documents published today cast doubt on News Corporation's claims that top executives and editors at the now-defunct News of the World were unaware of widespread phone hacking at the paper. One of the documents had also been aggressively redacted by News Corp., which removed references ...

Very insightful reflections on the challenges and benefits of having a code of ethics for a profession, in this case Anthropologists: "After three years spent seeking opinion and working on new guidelines, the American Anthropological Association is moving toward changes that some in the discipline fear will water down anthropologists' obligations to the people they study."

A new "black list" of worst companies. 

on animal rights ...

Gangster films used to motivate employees to crush rivals.

This article is about the SEC holding more people responsible for the wrong doings during the economic crisis. It talks about the careless things done with investor's money.

An article about AT&T merging with T-Mobile. The possible merger could limit the customers from the highest broadband technology and could cause an increase in mobile phone usage.

News * Is this story factual? * Is it fair? * Is it well sourced? Opinion * Is it informative? * Is it insightful? * Is it well written?

Fox News gets rave reviews for it's "balanced" news reporting.

New Breed Of "Compliance Software" Makes Company Monitoring More Sophisticated

Tobacco companies knew for decades that cigarette smoke was radioactive and potentially carcinogenic but kept that information from the public, according to a new study.

A trio of Connecticut money managers who split a $254 million Powerball jackpot say their new charitable trust is giving $1 million to five organizations that support veterans and military members who recently returned from deployments.

Article on South Korean government drawing up rules on how to treat robots. Robots are something created by man, a robot is a computer and a technology and therefore does not have feelings. I do not understand why humans need to have a set of rules on how to treat robots. Additionally I feel that this whole article is pathetic because once again humans are placing technology higher than mankind.

I think animals going extinct is a very ethical issue. Especially when one of the main causes is poaching.

I get news updates on my phone, and I saw an article about the possibility of Bieber being the father of a fan's child. I'm glad he is taking the DNA test, but the main point of me posting this article is that Bieber is an idol for younger kids today. If it turns out he did father a child at 16, he will be letting down many fans. And a butterfly effect could happen where all of a sudden the tweens and teens that are his biggest fans may start thinking that engaging in sexual activity when they are young is ok. If Bieber can do it, why can't they? By the way, I'm using the "tag" for this article loosely!

Union groups are not fond of the new plan that would cut jobs and services. The postal services have been going downhill since online services have become more convenient for the population.

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Union groups don't like big parts of a new bipartisan proposal in the Senate to save the U.S. Postal Service that would cut services and workers.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The corporate tax rate is 35%. But an examination of 280 of the nation's largest corporations suggests that many aren't paying anything close to that.

"honor killings" - this is the kind of thing Sam Harris (see this week's lecture) says we might be able to get past if we take a more 'scientific' view of morality.