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[shrimpheavennow]

'sup, babe?

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[shrimpheavennow]

k i'm an idiot so help me here.

how does journalism relate to ethics?

[choosetruth]

Seriously?

[How basic is she going to have to go here.]

[shrimpheavennow]

don't you just write down what happened?

is the ethics in reporting what bad shit people did or?

[choosetruth]

[Seriously?]

The ethics comes in choosing what is news and what is simply gossip. It comes in what you're willing to do to get a story.

It comes in fact checking. It comes in telling the truth rather than lying or exaggerating.

[shrimpheavennow]

so reporting on kim k taking a picture of her baby on her giant ass would be...unethical because it's gossip?

[But that's the majority of the kind of news she cares about!]

i'm really curious what all people are doing to get stories now that you say that. sounds potentially kinky.

[choosetruth]

It would be unethical to call it news. You can discuss it all you want, but there's no story there. And I don't know who Kim K is.

Sleeping with someone for a story is not especially ethical either.