The Ethics of Metaverse Journalism
Wagner James Au, publisher of Second World Notes, the Second Life newspaper, is making a "my willy nilly effort to come up with a workable ethics for reporting in the metaverse."
He questions whether reporting on recent grid attacks that have brought down the world gives the attackers an award by giving them publicity. He writes: "Attentive readers may be inclined to see parallels to conundrums from real world journalism-- for example, when the media gives prominent coverage to a minor terrorist attack, are they just reporting the news, or unintentionally becoming an abettor after the fact, while unnecessarily alarming the public?"
11-Oct-2006
By BL Ochman
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