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  St. Joseph Medical Center photo   By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” – Walter Scott. The debate or confusion over wearing a mask as a defense against coronavirus-19 is a tangle of mixed messages that began […]

Immigration.  wnd.com image   By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists   The covid-19 pandemic is spurring a migration, one of many in human history, from crowded big cities where death tolls are rising to smaller cities, suburbs and rural areas thought to be safer from the scourge. Humans are […]

Messiahnetwork.org image   By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists   “Thanks for having me!” You hear that over and over again, on radio and television. People express their gratitude for being invited to speak or appear as guests. They are trying to be polite, but they are trite. And […]

Predicting a future with covid. Barrymoltz.com photo By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists “Life as we know it” is a phrase used so blithely and innocently in the past, before the coronavirus ushered in a global pandemic that turned life as we know it into a big mystery. How […]

Covid-19 taking a mental health toll. Web24.news photo. By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Writers often resort to the word “dystopian” to signify an imaginary place of misery and dread, a place beloved by horror and science-fiction movie fans. Then along came covid-19, and the world finds it is […]

Polio patients in iron lungs. New York Daily News photo By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists As uncomfortable as it is to us now, the coronavirus pandemic will interest future historians as another cataclysmic eruption distorting lives and causing death around the world. They happened before. Every generation, it […]

  A pandemic image. Allure.com photo. By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Look what happened to ethics in this time of a global viral pandemic. It became important, a matter of life and death. This became clear when the national demand for life-saving ventilators was greater than the supply, […]

  Plague in Phrygia. Art Institute Journalism of a Plague Year By Hugh Miller Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists On April 3rd, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 14thCongressional district of New York, wrote in a tweet: “COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + […]

Coronavirus illustrated: Steve Brodner writes about the worst takes on the virus, featuring Rush Limbaugh, Geraldo Rivera and President Trump.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Muzzled scientists, stifled media: New restrictions on speaking directly to government scientists about the coronavirus are dangerous, writes Margaret Sullivan. “We’re now at a moment when experts must be free to share their knowledge and front-line workers must be free to tell their stories without being muzzled or threatened — […]