Monday, June 14, 2010

Ethics: Sarah Palin and Joe McGinniss

Two weeks ago, Sarah Palin discovered that she had a new neighbor: investigative journalist Joe McGinniss, who has rented the house next to hers while working on his forthcoming book, “Sarah Palin’s Year of Living Dangerously.” She immediately posted her view of this development on Facebook, and the controversy has spiraled quickly into death threats against him and competing accounts of reality. So, although this is a bit remote, I think there’s plenty of interesting ethical analysis to be had here.

Links:
Palin’s Facebook post about Joe McGinnis
Palin’s follow-up post on Facebook

Sarah Palin takes on Joe McGinniss (mild profanity) (Salon)
Joe McGinniss tells his side of the story (Wash Post)

Houses for rent in Wasilla (CraigsList)
Palin’s strange, unprofessional, paranoid grudge (Wash Post)
Palin on with Glenn Beck (The Right Scoop)
Joe McGinniss (Wikipedia)
Joe fires back at Palins (Huffington Post)
Joe and the ABC reporter (Associated Content)

Joe McGinness's prior article on Palin (Portfolio.com)
Another article on Palin by McGinness (The Daily Beast)

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