Journalism is a profession where is very common talks about which things are ethical and which thing are not. They make debates about it all the time.
Well now I´m going to makes a summary about a new related with this. The title of the new is: “Leveson inquiry: Guardian journalist justifies hacking if in the public interest”. With the title we can know the Guardian defend something that usually is considered unethical for the most of journalism.
David Leigh who is a editor of The Guardian says that sometimes is fine heard voicemail messages. He say it`s good do it when you have something that all the people have to know. "Most of the time we are extremely well-behaved" says Leigh referring to some journalist who not always makes public all the information they have although when they are on public interest. He say journalist have to do it just when is absolutely necessary, for example to denounce corporations who want to keep things (that affect some people) quiet for their own reason, newspapers also keep things quiet.
In the other hand Charlotte Harris, who represents a number of phone-hacking claimants. She says that it uncomfortable and not a good practice.
It's so hard to talk about ethics, I mean... there is a fine line between being ethical and being an idiot...
ReplyDeleteI think there are some other things for me to figure out about an ethical behaviour
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