Ethics Scenario

In this case, I would not agree to have another article printed. It would just be a biased article that doesn’t really tell the truth about the situation. I don’t see anything the reporter did or wrote as unethical, he is giving the story that he found through interviewing the teens. He can’t just ignore the information that he found to please school and local officials. The article shows the problems with drug use, it is in no way encouraging it. The officials should not be ignoring the fact that their program is ineffective in discouraging the drug use. There is no reason to interview kids who do not need the program; the reporter was right to talk to the ones who need the program to actually be effective. These kids are the ones that you will want to gear the program towards – the officials should be interested in finding out what it is that causes the teens to get into the drugs, and how they get them. You can use this information to help them. This seems much more useful then complaining about how the media is making the school's program look unproductive. If the reporter shows the program as having no impact, there was obviously reason for this to be the case.