On day two, July 28, lectures were given on principles of news ethics and values which make news more or less important for their display in newspapers.
Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) convened an ethics board that likewise decided human therapeutic cloning would be unethical.
She said such restraint is a vital part of NPR's code of ethics, which states that news staffers cannot say things in other public forums that they could not say on NPR's airwaves as well.
Even before Craig defended himself after the news broke, Senate Republicans were calling for an ethics investigation.
Williams was fired Wednesday for violating NPR's ethics policy over comments he made on Fox News about Muslims.
He was testifying before an independent British inquiry into journalistic ethics prompted by phone hacking at the defunct News of the World, once the flagship British Sunday tabloid of News Corp.
CNN: James Murdoch blames underlings in phone-hacking inquiry
The matter is now before the House Committee on Official Conduct, better known as the Ethics Committee, and that prompted these thoughts from news analyst Daniel Schorr.
On Monday, Lord Justice Leveson begins his Government inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press, in response to the News of the World phonehacking scandal, which continues to generate shocking headlines.
"Since the tools for making media have been distributed to the people formerly known as the audience, the scene where professional ethics 'happen' must shift to the filters that news organisations apply when they decide what to publish, " he says.
The Leveson inquiry was set up to investigate press ethics and standards in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
The phone-hacking allegations led to the closure of the News of the World in July 2011 and the establishment of the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics.
Naomi Seligman Steiner, deputy director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says the rise of the Internet and 24-hour cable news has empowered the public with an "insatiable appetite" for scandal.
The Leveson Report examined the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
The Leveson Inquiry was set up by Mr Cameron to examine the culture, practice and ethics of the press in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
But the New York Daily News has reported that Republican Senator John McCain is suggesting that the whole matter should be looked at by the Senate Ethics Committee.
When asked whether it's possible Palin stepped down because of negative news that has not emerged, Matalin referenced Palin's own words that investigators have dug through research in the ethics investigation.
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