jou 220: ethics
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Feb 242009
Hey y’all:
When you do your assignment, remember that you are looking for information that was divulged in the story which – to you – brings up an ethical question (you’ll see the list of ethical questions in the SPJ Code of Ethics).
This isn’t about finding a point that you disagree (e.g. “they shouldn’t write about Planned Parenthood” – because PP exists and medical procedures happen there); instead, you would be looking for information such as the name of people who go into those clinics – should they be revealed if a reporter is standing outside the clinic? Have we made the private public?
We are looking for facts like that which you think raise an ethical issue or dilemma.
Here are some links about the issues we discussed today in class:
- SPJ Code of Ethics
- Ethics in the Duke lacrosse case
- Day Care abuse hysteria, per Wikipedia
- Printing the name of a rape victim
