At Columbia Journalism School, they teach an Ethics class. Don’t laugh. The journalists-to-be cheated on their ethics test. It seems that the journalists-in-waiting who had taken the test leaked the questions to those who hadn’t. They school discovered this unethical behavior because of a whistleblower.

The students were not thrown out of school; rather, they were made to attend a class.

The course, which includes such issues as “Why be Ethical?” and “Tribal Loyalty vs. Journalistic Obligation,” is taught by New York Times columnist Samuel G. Freedman, who could not be reached yesterday.

These people make this easy by proving the point over and over and over…

(see also: Suitably Flip and Hot Air.)

You can laugh now.