This guy has it exactly right.
This is what is at stake in the struggle for net neutrality – Corporate profit or General access.
James Pilant
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Author: southwerk
I am a 53 year old teacher. I have double major in Speech and Criminal Justice resulting in a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern State University in Oklahoma and a law degree.
Jim Tressel, Ohio State and Ethical Standards (via PR on the run)
I saw this and laughed at his opening. I said to myself, “I’ll go up there and click on the ‘like’ button and let him know he amused me. Then I read the whole thing. The author got serious and talked about ethics with a passion that I find compelling.
Please give a read to this post.
James Pilant
via PR on the run
The McGowan Blog on Business Leadership and Ethics – Brand New Business Ethics Blog!
I want to extend a warm welcome to Larry Kahaner and his new blog. I have been reading it and I recommend you do so as well. I added it to my favorites and my blog roll. I believe that would make it the 12th blog I have recommended in that manner.
This is the intro for the first post on The McGowan Blog on Business Leadership and Ethics.
This is the first of a twice-weekly blog on business leadership and ethics hosted by the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund. We will discuss current issues, ask questions, offer opinions and solicit your comments with the goal of spurring conversations among the business, government and academic communities. The subject of whistleblowers has been a controversial topic lately, so let’s begin.
There are now three posts as follows:
Feb. 27 –
Is Whistleblowing the Only Way to Spur Ethical Behavior?
( First Line) As a society, we Americans love whistleblowers. They are our folk heroes, our Davids versus Goliaths.
March 2 –
Are B-Schools Teaching the Right Lessons About Ethics?After the Enron scandal and again after the Worldcom debacle, B-schools juiced up their ethics courses partly out of guilt, partly to deflect public and government criticism and partly because these scandals offered a perfect time for professors to sell ethics curricula to school leadership. We’re seeing the same thing now. Don’t get me wrong; I applaud any effort to increase ethics training – and I’m not so cynical to say that it won’t work this time – but have previous attempts worked as well as we had hoped?
March 8 –
In light of these massive changes, what is the role that multinational U.S. business should play in American society considering that their main interests are moving offshore? Indeed, the U.S consumer and the U.S. government have all helped produce world-class, profitable and innovative American companies. What, if anything, do these companies owe the U.S. government and its people for making them the global giants that they are today?
Here is a brief biographical sketch from the blog –
Larry Kahaner has been a business journalist for more than 20 years, a former Business Week Washington correspondent, and the author of many books about business ethics including: Values Prosperity and the Talmud: Business Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis; Competitive Intelligence: How to Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Move Your Business to the Top; and Say It and Live It; The 50 Corporate Mission Statements that Hit the Mark, (co-author). You can reach him at: McGowanFundBlog@gmail.com.
A Threat To Religious Liberty for Some is a Threat To All (via Confessions of a Small Church Pastor)
I have said on this blog a number of times that I consider those Americans who practice the religion of Islam to be as much patriots as any other religious group in American.
Thus, it is not surprising that I like this article.
James Pilant
Hardshipping (via non-recourse life)
This is another of the human tragedies associated with the foreclosure crisis. I think the policy makers flying in their circles above us have forgotten that it is real people who need their consideration.
James Pilant
Surf’s Up, Condensed: Top Creativity Links for March 9, 2011 (via Creative Liberty)
I’m a big fan of the arts. I think Americans should pay a lot more attention to creativity. This blog talks about the arts and creativity. And it provides a good number of links with original information about these.
I read through them. It’s well written. If you are a patron of arts or creativity, go here.
James Pilant
via Creative Liberty
China Moves Aggressively on Indian Border (via The Times of India)
From the Times of India, an article by Rajat Pandit.
Apart from nuclear missile bases in Qinghai province which clearly target India, China has built five fully-operational airbases, an extensive rail network and over 58,000 km of roads in Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).
People’s Liberation Army is also rapidly upgrading several other airstrips in TAR as well as south China, to add to the five airbases from where Chinese Sukhoi-27UBK and Sukhoi-30MKK fighters have practised operations in recent times.
Moreover, with extensive road-rail links in TAR, PLA can amass upwards of two divisions (30,000 soldiers) at their “launch pads” along the border in just 20 days now compared to the over 90 days it took earlier.
Why do I have to go to the Times of India to read about the Chinese building up their forces on the border?
What does this say about the security of American manufacturing and investment in Communist China?
China is never going to be the number one economic power on earth. They have territorial ambitions and scores to settle dating back hundreds of years.
In ten years, Americans confronted with the Chinese military ambitions will look back in astonishment that China was held in awe by scores of business commentators, politicians and what we laughingly call pundits.
Can you imagine the awe of future Americans that businesses in the United States thought it was a good idea to shift American jobs to China. .. that Americans built manufacturing plants and share technology including their latest patents with the Chinese?
Our relationship is already fraying in consideration of Chinese currency controls, their treatment of dissidents and a naval build up largely aimed at the United States Navy.
We will be dealing with China in the future, less economically and more as a military problem.
James Pilant
No One Killed Morality! (via Mythbroakia)
This is a well written, thoughtful article. (The title is great by itself.) Journalists are confronted by thorny ethical issues on a continuous basis. He discusses this in very much a reality based manner while still hanging on to virtue.
I liked it. By the way, the site is beautiful. A lot of thought went into the design and it’s visually stunning. So, go and read the article but if you don’t want to, click over just to have a look at the site.
James Pilant
via Mythbroakia
Comedian Mike DeStefano Dead
From Huffington Post –
Comedian Mike DeStefano has passed away following a heart attack on Sunday Punchline Magazine reports, and it is an enormous loss for the comedy community.
I like comedians. They are free to tell us things we wouldn’t take from anyone else. They are another window on reality. Don’t get me wrong – they can miss reality further than a rock thrown at the moon. But the good ones, they are our street philosophers.
James Pilant
Warning Strong Language – Very Strong Language – Biting, mean comedy – Tons of Racial Jokes
Happy House, Sad House (via Mike LaMonica’s Blog)
Mike LaMonica calls us to look at a single home, a beautiful home. I would guess another mortgage foreclosure. I’ve seen houses around here that have been for sale so long, that one of the two word supports has rotted and left the for sale sign in the grass.
I love houses. I like the old ones, brick and sturdy. The mid-sixties ranch house designs are my favorite. It’s a tragedy when a beautiful house goes empty.
LaMonica is right. It is sad.
James Pilant
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