Category: Nonfiction
The Ethics of Using Unethical Words in Op-Eds Inte...
Posted by Gary Stuart | Aug 27, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The Ethics of Writing About Social Distancing Duri...
Posted by Gary Stuart | Jul 23, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The Ethics of Writing About Death in the COVID-19 ...
Posted by Gary Stuart | May 29, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The Ethics of Writing Predictions in the COVID-19 ...
Posted by Gary Stuart | May 26, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The Ethics of Writing Crisis Standards of Care in ...
Posted by Gary Stuart | May 21, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The Ethics of Writing True Crime
by Gary Stuart | Dec 2, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
The title itself—The Ethics of Writing True Crime—defines the first ethical norm. The crime you’re...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Using Unethical Words in Op-Eds Intended for Public Consumption
by Gary Stuart | Aug 27, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
I know how absurd it sounds—unethical words. Words are not immoral, unethical, or even touchy....
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About Social Distancing During a Public Health Crisis
by Gary Stuart | Jul 23, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
This is one of a series of blogs I never thought about until COVID-19 changed my mind, along with...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About Death in the COVID-19 Era
by Gary Stuart | May 29, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
We’ve all heard the old saw, “The only thing certain in life is death.” It’s wrong but catchy....
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing Predictions in the COVID-19 Era
by Gary Stuart | May 26, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
My favorite all-time pundit and cynic defined the word “predict” in a way that never made...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing Crisis Standards of Care in 2020 America
by Gary Stuart | May 21, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
Writing to-do lists, standard-of-care guidelines, orders to take care, stay home, get tested,...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About Political Parties in 2020
by Gary Stuart | May 8, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
Other blog postings on this site posited ethical issues for writing about politics writ large, the...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About the 2020 Presidential Election
by Gary Stuart | May 6, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
Let’s say you’re not a journalist or a reporter. But you are an activist, campaign staffer, or...
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About COVID-19
by Gary Stuart | Apr 22, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
My last posting was about the ethics of writing about pandemics ad seriatim (one after the other)....
Read MoreThe Ethics of Writing About Pandemics
by Gary Stuart | Apr 15, 2020 | Nonfiction | 0
2020 is the year a Pandemic, with a capital “P,” afflicted the globe, drowned every economy,...
Read MoreWhen We Tell Stories, Are We Telling LIVES?”
by Gary Stuart | Nov 15, 2018 | Nonfiction | 0
Right, the title is correct. At first glance it reads telling stories, telling lies. But that...
Read MoreDo we cross an ethical boundary by revealing private information in nonfiction writing?
by Gary Stuart | Oct 9, 2018 | Nonfiction | 0
“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.” Aneurin Bevan Nonfiction writers have, for centuries, published long-form pieces that revealed the personal lives of people—usually with their...
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