{"id":7903,"date":"2011-10-13T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2011-10-13T08:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:50:44","slug":"todays-beer-ethics-forecast-partly-cloudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/todays-beer-ethics-forecast-partly-cloudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s beer ethics forecast: partly cloudy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right or wrong, black or white
\nCross the line you’re gonna pay
\nIn the dawn before the light
\nLive and die by the shades of gray<\/em><\/p>\n

– Robert Earl Keen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you care about beer writing ethics? Do think those the last three words even belong together in a sentence? Or do you figure we’re all here for the free beer and any free beer is a good beer?<\/p>\n

Pete Brown writes today about “Blogging, ethics and payola – what is OK?”<\/a> <\/p>\n

A timely coincidence for some of us, because there is a move afoot to revive the North American Guild of Beer Writers. You can get a glimpse of this by following @nagbw<\/a> on Twitter. And a glimpse is likely all you’d want. Lots of emails flying about, inside baseball<\/del> beer communications1<\/sup> chatter, including about ethics.<\/p>\n

For a taste, look at the longest lasting discussion<\/a> to ever break out here. It started with a Kenneth Tynan quote — “A critic\u2019s job, nine-tenths of it, is to make way for the good by demolishing the bad.” It turned into a conversation about much more, again including ethics. I found it interesting (and participated) and since I’m paying for the rent here I guess that justifies it.<\/p>\n

For me it’s a matter of trust. Ethics matter for the same reason getting the facts right<\/a> matters. <\/p>\n

But do those who don’t write about beer in print or cyberspace care?<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>“Communications” because typing bloggers\/writers or writers\/bloggers and discussing where they overlap leads to whole ‘nother conversation.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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