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Reporters are different than anyone else when it comes to having a perspective, or they should be. His opinion or perspective shouldn't matter if he reports all the facts. Only reporting half the facts is crappy reporting.Originally Posted by Dawg Fan
The rest of the story.....In June, he met with the coach and discussed the upcoming season and was excited. He broke up with his girlfriend who is a cheerleader and he is really taking the break up hard. He could not take seeing her at every game and did not feel right about asking her to stop cheerleading, so his decision is to quit basketball. He has no desire to play anymore but his dad wants him to transfer and sit out the year and then make it to the NBA.
Someone needs to send him to Bernice for a quick confidence rebuilding exercise.
It doesn't apply as much now as it did when news was only in print, on the radio, or on television. Back in the day, space was very limited in print publications and time was limited on television broadcasts so only getting little tidbits of information was the norm. With the Internet, articles can be however long they need to be to cover a subject well. However, reporters don't have the luxury of taking days to write an article and spending hours doing research to ensure all the facts are included. Reporters are expected to churn out products quickly and frequently. I doubt Sean has much, if any, help gathering facts for his stories. I'm okay with reporters as long as the facts they report are accurate (or they believe them to be based on what they have to work with). The audience doesn't get to decide what articles are written or published. That is the job of the editor. I don't know how much discretion Sean is given regarding what to report. Perhaps he gets to be the sole decision maker, but I sort of doubt that is the case.
Report all the facts! Research shows that nearly every reader bails on the story before getting to the end. Stories need to be short and concise. The more stories are bogged down with more and more facts, the less those facts will be read. Despite no space limitations online, there are limitations of how long readers will stay engaged with a story. It's just not that long. And there's loads and loads of research available to back that up.
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There's nothing to prove to Isabella. It's about knowing the difference between right and wrong. One of the pillars of ethics is nonmaleficence. Tech made White the 2nd highest paid employee in Tech history to sign recruits like Leon and Jean, and it's White's ethical duty to do no harm to Tech by recruiting those Tech signees to Florida when we paid him $650K to get them to sign with Tech. It's black and white. No proof necessary.
It's like getting paid at a good desk job but all you do is play fantasy baseball all week. You're being paid to provide value to your employer, not primarily for your own benefit.
I disagree with you that it's black and white. Journalists actually take ethics training. There is a certain code that we are to uphold. While I personally disagree with what Mike White and his staff have done, there's nothing technically "unethical" about it as it pertains to our journalistic standard.
the bold, the beautiful, theprofessor
The Journalistic Ethics Code must be very lax. Leaving out known facts from one side is the same as not telling the truth.
sounds like after politicians, lawyers, and weathermen - I now can't trust journalists any longer
The terms "journalists" and "ethics" have no business being in the same conversation!
I am so happy about the SC decision. I'm looking and you will all be invited.
Do you do drugs?
Crappy excuse to only report one side of a subject. If you have to sacrifice major facts or one side of a story just to keep the article short, then don't write the article.
Has the door hit Stapleton in the ass yet?
I thought so.
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