Dan Gillmor has a right to ethically challenge the ethically challenged and any others who might want to sign on to his Bayosphere as armed and badged "community journalists." Jeff Jarvis says, "Still, I’m not sure I want to go signing any pledges. Signing a pledge
doesn’t make me more trustworthy or more accurate or more decent or
more ethical. Either you trust me or you don’t." I think this whole matter was resolved in the 17th century. I agree with Jeff that a pledge is superfluous.
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Our Citizen Journalism Pledge on a Wiki
Jeff Jarvis doesn’t like the Bayosphere Citizen Journalist Pledge, and neither does
Bayosphere pledge whips up blogosphere
For a basic meat-and-potatoes vow, the new Citizen Journalist Pledge on Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere is creating lots of hand-wringing. I tend to agree with Laurence Haughton who wrote in the comments area of Jeff Jarvis’ critical post at BuzzMachine:The big