When I signed up for journalism I thought I would be encouraged to delve deep and find the filthy information to incriminate my target. To issue the secrets of a person so vile they would be all but banished from society. To find - "THE TRUTH"!
To my chagrin, I had no idea there were indeed ethics to some forms of journalism. "The good, the bad and the ugly" as John Harrison cleverly put it. The class was shown some pictures of billboards which were seen to be either in good taste or bad. Ethical or non-ethical. Right or just plain wrong...
Harrison proposed a graph that could rate something on the basis of ethics and it's good or bad taste. This sign for example (which I find quite funny), would probably rate around the middle of the ethical/taste spectrum. A spectrum which can only be based on opinion... thus rendering the graph kind of unnecessary.
In any case, now we know that there is a definite line that can mean the difference between success and failure if we cross it!
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