Local journos -- including all you citizen journalists out there in the
blogosphere -- are invited to a Saturday morning session in which a
panel of "newsmakers" and reporters will talk about some hypothetical
yet ethically dicey news events and how they might be covered.
On the newsmakin' side are former FBI agent Jeff Lanza, attorney Eric Vernon
and retired Marine Col. Bob Lewis. Representing journalists are Micheal
Mahoney of KMBC, Dave Helling from the Star and Chris Hernandez from
NBC Action News.
Kansas City Press Club hopes the session might be a little like the Fred Friendly Seminars. Friendly was the legendary one-time president of CBS News who, among other now hard-to-imagine feats of network-news bravery, teamed with Edward R. Murrow to expose the rotted soul of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Here's a clip of biology professor Lee Silver and Meredith Vieira dealing with a hypothetical in which they'd lost their beloved daughter and wonder whether to clone her:
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Oooh! Oooh! I got one!
Let's say a major newspaper is investigating a HUGE scandal involving a sitting President breaking the law by illegally spying on American citizens. It's right before the election. Does the paper sit on the story to protect the President, or release it and tell the public the truth?
Oh, wait. I guess that's not a hypothetical, is it?
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