ETHICAL PET PEEVES: Here are a couple of good reads from Poynter about journalistic ethics. Some are funny, some are serious. Here's one that echoes my experiences at my last newspaper job:

"I'm never crazy about the disingenuous practice of some media outlets covering an 'uproar' or 'furor' that they have themselves created. 'There has been a lot of hype and controversy about such-and-such' - when the source of the hype is nobody but the media." (Monica Moses, Poynter visual journalism faculty.)

Amen to that.