I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.
I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.
I imagine they forgot to explicitly list that because avoiding undisclosed paid promotions is so baked into the ethics of journalism that saying it out loud didn't cross their minds.
A: it looks like this article is no more than an ad
B: Oh noes, it can't be, they have specific policy against that!
A: That policy actually does not have anything about this.
B: Ah, that's because they are so ethical that they didn't even think to mention this in their policy!
Sure, this sounds extremely convincing.
(and of course, nobody ever ignored or tiptoed around a written policy, ever)
I think an important piece of media literacy is being able to tell if a publication is likely to follow journalistic ethics or not. SF Standard pass that test for me.
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