From the Jaded_JD comes a blogethical landmine:
I have a question on which Virginia Centrist or blogethical maestro Shaun Kenney might opine: suppose one receives payment from an organization for professional services and happens, coincidentally, to blog about political issues from a personal perspective coincidentally, and independently, parallel to the political goals of that organization?
Coincidentally?
Three components:
(1) Payment from an organization for professional services,
(2) Political issues from a personal perspective,
(3) Where the personal and professional ideas align?
My response? Disclosure on a case-by-case basis.
Let’s rephrase:
Suppose one receives payment from an organization for professional services and happens, purposefully, to blog about political issues from a personal perspective purposefully, and independently, parallel to the political goals of that organization?
Now I will not be the one to imply that correlation always implies causality, but it sure as hell begs the question…