Last week, we told you about Harvard Business School professor and New York Times freelancer Prof. Mary Tripsas, busted in an ethical pickle for accepting a free trip. This Sunday, public editor Clark Hoyt took on the issue: “She will no longer be writing for The Times.” But are these rules right?

New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt was not messing around this weekend, as he used his Sunday column to highlight and explain in detail the ethical shortcomings of two recent Times articles. Doing his job with gusto, Hoyt took to task Charles DeLaFuente, a copy editor who used a column space to complain about his own JetBlue airline mishap, and Suzy Buckley, the freelance travel writer caught plugging her long-term boyfriend’s Miami restaurant. Public editors mean business!

New York Times travel writer Suzy Buckley is caught in a sensational tangle of journalistic ethics after notable watchdog blog NYT Picker is reported that Buckley used the TMagazine travel section of the paper to recommend a burger joint owned by her former boyfriend. And, oh yeah, he’s been accused of murdering an unborn baby. Scary Times!