Friday, September 11, 2015

News Ethics

The Medias Foul Ball
In this article a conflict occurs during a baseball game, a ball is hit and a spectator decides to catch it but stops a player in the game from catching the ball, effecting the outcome of the game. The man is pelted by things and yelled at by fans, he is then removed from the stadium.Then the news decides to post an article about this situation but gave out his name, where he works, and where he lives.
I think this one is obvious, this is ethically unacceptable, by releasing this information about him he has a very good chance of getting hurt or even killed in a extreme situation by angered fans. The news has put this mans life in danger, because they believed it was acceptable to do so.

Using The "Holocaust" Metaphor
This article is about the comparison of lots of animals being slaughter to the planned genocide of jews.
It puts pictures side to side of concentration camps and slaughter houses showing the similarities.
This is an interesting subject, because the fact that people are comparing animals too humans is almost like they are trying to make us treat animals like humans and humans like animals. The reason we slaughter animals is because we all need food, not to get rid of them like the nazis were doing to the jews, but they are a supply that we need to survive. So comparing them to the holocaust is absolutely silly and childish. This is ethically wrong and not a truthful comparison.

Publishing Drunk Driver's Photos 
In this situation the publisher of a newspaper in anderson decided to start putting the pictures of people convicted of drunk driving in the county. He used it as leverage to encourage the decrease of drunk driving, he did not receive good responses from the people because the news circulates and gets around to everyone, so if your picture got published, everyone would know. And not only did he just post your picture he posted your name, where you live, when you were arrested and your blood level at the time.
This publisher has gone to far, these people don't deserve this amount of pointing out, they already had to struggle with the fact that they were driving drunk and got pulled over and possibly got in a wreck and could have killed someone. Putting all this information about them on the information is unacceptable in my opinion, this publisher needs to find another way to encourage the decrease of drunk driving, not blackmail. This is ethically wrong and not an appropriate policy for the newspaper.

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