[ NNSquad ] Re: "Alliance for Women in Media" opposes FCC's "Third Way"

[Sara Wedeman <sara@behavioraleconomics.net>]

The ethical problem here is that this is a dual relationship. One cannot know whether the financial contributions AT&T has made have had any impact on the behavior of this group. However, in my field (psychology), dual relationships are viewed as unethical precisely because most influence is unconscious, and it is frequently impossible to ferret out this kind of intangible but meaningful force.

Sara

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Art Brodsky <abrodsky@publicknowledge.org> wrote:

One notes that AT&T is a big sponsor of said group.
http://www.awrt.org/current-partnerships.php

It's a shame.

    [ Now to be fair, the fact that AT&T is one of their sponsors is
      certainly interesting and worthy of note in this context, but I
      believe it's a bit of a leap (at least without more data) to
      assume that this relationship has necessarily controlled the
      group's opinion on this matter, which seems to be your
      implication.

           -- Lauren Weinstein
               NNSquad Moderator ]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> wrote:

>
> "Alliance for Women in Media" opposes FCC's "Third Way"
>
> http://bit.ly/bdbw9S  (RBR)
>
> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator
>

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