NDM 41

Journalism and public shaming: Some guidelines

People use journalism and social media to publicly humiliate people when they have something bad or controversial. This article talks about the guidelines, whether it is right or wrong and way to shame someone without bullying them. 

According to the writer of this article shaming for the good of the world as a whole is classed as "good shaming," but shaming for the sake of it is classed as bad shaming, and should not be done.

"And earlier this month, Jon Ronson published a piece in the New York Times Magazine on the aftermath of people who found themselves caught up in a public shaming. His story starts and ends with Justine Sacco, the woman who last year tweeted, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” to her 170 Twitter followers before a flight out of London, only to arrive in Cape Town 11 hours later to discover the Internet hated her, her extended family was humiliated and she’d been fired."