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Public shaming and the role of the media
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Mar 19, 2015
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Public shaming and the role of the media
The media plays a big role in public shaming. But is that a good thing? It's a topic Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute has been mulling over.
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The media plays a big role in public shaming. But is that a good thing? It's a topic Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute has been mulling over.

These days when someone says something sexist, or racist or otherwise awful, there's a tendency to call them out - to shame them.

The media plays a big role in that shaming. But is that a good thing? It's a topic Kelly McBride has been mulling over.

McBride is the vice president for Academic Programs at the Poynter Institute and recently ran their ethics department, and she gives her perspective.