I had a meeting with one of the prominent lawyers in NY yesterday. We discussed a new way of promoting his service through digital media. The lawyer seemed to grasp the concept of new media and follow it up pretty well. He told me that he started to put his bi-weekly blog on his website. Just like him, business owners started to move from print to digital. I do not think anything is wrong with that, but I strongly feel that the accuracy of information could be in question.
The more he explained about how he creates his blog, the more I found out that he is trying to get new costumes by getting quoted. The more he digs idea of quatation, the more he conducts unethical action.
The problem is that he himself writes an article and quotes himself in it. In the paper, he does not put his name, but instead he makes it seem like a staff writer on the website writes his article. The scarest thing is that he did not even seem to care this unprofessionalism.
After the meeting, I could not stop wondering how many others are marketing their services just like this untruthful lawyer does. Journalists and reporters are not the profession, but it is work done with pride and dignity. I truly realize that we, ordinary people have to polish our insight to find these problems hidden behind thousands of flooded information in today’s society.
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