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The Law and Ethics
Contract with the Public: One View of Ethics
Case Study 1: Undercover Video
To show how easy it is for minors to buy alcohol, a news organization sends a 19-year-old into a couple of liquor stores. The reporters record video of the purchases through the store windows with a long lens from a van across the street. The reporters then walk into the stores with cameras rolling to interview the clerks.
Poll #776155
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22
Should the news team use the video of the clerk?
Case Study 2: Violence on the News
A journalist is photographing a federal informer as he walks along a courthouse hallway between two marshals. Suddenly a man steps from a telephone booth and shoots the informer dead. The journalist captures the event on video.
Poll #776156
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19
Should the news organization show the murder on the evening news?
View Answers
| Yes |
   6 (31.6%) |
| No |
| 11 (57.9%) |
| Not sure |
| 2 (10.5%) |
| Only if a competing station shows the video first |
| 0 (0.0%) |
Case Study 3:National Security
A truck carrying nuclear warheads overturns on a highway in your area. The Defense Dept. prohibits any photographers at the scene on the grounds of safety and national security. Defense Dept. officials say they will escort reporters into the area and permit them to photograph selected views of the accident, on condition they submit all video recordings for Defense Dept. screening before they are aired.
Poll #776157
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15
Should reporters agree to submit their images to the Defense Dept. for review?
Case Study 4: Off the Record
A reporter is sitting in a bar where she happens to engage in a conversation with the new city attorney. The attorney thinks the reporter is just another person at the bar and begins to open up, pouring out information that would make a great story.
Poll #776158
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 19
Should the reporter tell the attorney that she is a journalist?
Poll #776159
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17
Should the reporter publish the information that the attorney divulged to her without knowing her identity?
The Case of Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe was a tennis star in the 1970s. In 1988 he was diagnosed with AIDS, which he contracted from a blood transfusion he received during surgery in 1983. He and his family decided not to disclose his condition to the public. In 1992, a USA Today reporter asked him if he had AIDS. “Could be,”Ashe said. He later realized that his words were as good as an admission. He called a press conference the next day before USA Today could print the story.
--Arthur Ashe, 1992
Things to Watch Out For
Professional Ethics Codes
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