What happens when you make a mistake or change your mind on the blogosphere? Can you correct it? How should you correct it? Are you trapped, like politicians seem to be, in either holding a hardline approach to every opinion you’ve ever made public, no matter how stupid, or risk being called a flip-flopper or a revisionist?

Rules for journalism as written by fantasticsatireblogger Jon Swift.

11. Journalists should not give money to any political campaigns, participate in any political activities or even vote. Former ABC political director Mark Halperin and Washington Post editor Len Downie don’t vote, which is why they are so trustworthy and so respected by other journalists. Just as Catholic priests give up sex, journalists should give up their right to participate in the political process so that they will not have to think too much about whether one side or another is correct. Thinking too hard threatens their objectivity. (See Rule No. 1.)

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It’s brilliant timing, as I’m currently composing a presentation called “All I need to know about journalism I learned from the ‘Ghostbusters’ movie.”

Incidentally, I may be giving a version of that presentation this Friday at Jimmy’s No. 43; 43 E. 7th St., between 2nd and 3rd Aves., N.Y., N.Y. The evening starts at 7:30 p.m. and there’ll be live performances, videos and beautiful, wonderful people.