Blog #2 Thinking About Journalistic Ethics - Nicole Wagner

Thinking About Journalistic Ethics

Ethics should be important to Journalism because every story that is written should be respecting all people. Rules of conduct that Journalists should observe when they observe a story is to not invade other people's privacy, and to not have any racist indications. I don't think they get the main idea of the story out. They could be disrespectful to some people if they told everything that they knew. There should be limitations for what Journalists can say because they should just be telling the story and not trying to make other people look bad. I think that the Journalist has to trust the subject that they are telling them the whole story. The subject also has to trust the Journalist that they are telling the story straight, and to not disrespect them by deceiving them by changing the main idea of the story to something else.