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This shows that Davis was right in his essay that most whistleblowers bring information forward at great risk to themselves. Most workplaces have a "Whistleblower Protection" rules somewhere (I know my job does) but they do not really want you to bring forward information.

I would have never guessed it but there is an Informant award for whistlblowers!

Securities and Exchange Commision approved a law that rewards cash for people that inform the SEC about a business who has commited illegal activies within the government.

What information is private when a politician? This article is about weather or not a politicians private life should be known, do we have a right to their private lives?

Professional sports have decided to take the "green" approach as well by implementing energy saving technologies such as wind power, solar panels, and biodegrable corn-based plastic cups. The NDRC has provided way for all major sports to jump on this bandwagon which will inform all of its viewers to perserve this earth.

One part of journalism we didn't discuss we human interest strories. These story's tell us more about our local neighborhoods and usually are entertaining and informative. This is done by a friend of mine, Boyd Huppert.

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

I think this is a good article concerning the health and safety of society. Mark Hyman is doing his duty as an author to help inform people about vitamins, which can be a confusing topic.

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.

I think that this article goes to show us that no matter how much we like facebook, we need to be careful about what we are displaying to the world. There are still people with no morals who are going to take your information and run with it.

This article is about some concerns with Google+ Privacy. I think that all social media has some loop hole for hackers to get in. I think the simple solution is not to share information on social media that you wouldn't want everyone in the world to see.

Bernie Madoff's multibillion-dollar stretched back at least to the early 1970s, when his employees used historical information on stocks to create false trades that could be placed on customer statements, a former trader revealed as he pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges.

Hackers broke into secure information and personal info on employees and CEO's

Here's a great resource for you Entrepreneurial Studies majors. 

There is a new South Dakota convention that started this year called South Dakota Marketplace that is similar to the lean start up company. I went to SDMP this year and learned a lot of beneficial information.

Patient information was posted to Hospital website.

The internet is comprised social media that could be detrimental to our youth as well as misleading information that cannot be seen as reliable. Media organizations are revising and reissuing ethical codes to address most of these problems.

The Era of Social Media

Here's one for our discussion next week...good info-aesthetics, questionable ethics.

WikiLeaks' method of releasing information is dangerous. Some secrets NEED to be kept secret.

A friend had shared a picture on Facebook that I saw today. It was copies from two articles about two different crimes. One was of a wealthy white man and one was of a homeless black man. The pictures note the sentences and crimes committed and imply that there was disparity in the sentencing. Here is a post I found on the two cases. What are your thoughts on the different cases?

I did some extra research on these two cases as well (including Snopes). I posted the linke that I did (and only that) for a couple of reasons. 1) Because of the potential inequality of the two cases and 2) because I don't think that most people look past the information give to them. I was glad to see that someone (granted you are the professor, but still) looked into the stories a bit more. I think that also says something about ethics. I recently sent a friend of mine (who was making claims about products other than those she was selling). The claims were that there was bat guano in many brands of mascara. She told me she had heard this from an optometrist but she had never done any research on her own. When I did (because I did not want to make claims that I did not know to be true), I forwarded some of the sources I found to her. In our society, we tend to take things at face value.

Aha, very clever test :) Glad you're doing some of the critical thinking that, as you indicate, we need to be doing much more of. Keep up the good research!