Red Maryland: Ruth Marcus and Joe McGinniss: A Model of Ethical Advocacy and a Cad

Red Maryland: Ruth Marcus and Joe McGinniss: A Model of Ethical Advocacy and a Cad
http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruth-marcus-and-joe-mcginniss-model-of.html

Friday, May 28, 2010

Ruth Marcus and Joe McGinniss: A Model of Ethical Advocacy and a Cad

--Richard E. Vatz

This blog is about what some people have opined regarding writer Joe McGinniss’s moving in next door to Governor Sarah Palin to write a book on her. As described in disgustingly praising, jocular prose by Jack Shafer of Slate, McGinniss is “renting the house next door to the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska, from which he is going to research and write his book -- that honors a long tradition of snooping. McGinniss's previous demonstration of overreach in pursuit of a story was to bid all the way to $60,101 in a charity auction on eBay last year for dinner with Palin before dropping out. Compared with that, renting a house next to Palin for five months seems pedestrian.”

What McGinniss is doing is simply despicable. No qualifiers are necessary. But, as I indicated, I am even more interested here in honor and dishonor in opinion-writing.

Read Dr. Vatz' entire piece here: http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2010/05/ruth-marcus-and-joe-mcginniss-model-of.html

Professor Vatz teaches an advanced Persuasion class and a Media Criticism class at Towson University

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