Introduction to Ethics

          To me being ethical means being responsible and having a good moral during what you do in life.  An ethical journalist for example is someone who might write mean insults about someone based on a personal opinion.  If you agree to work on a project with your friend make sure that you take an ethical action to take half of the work to do your self and don’t let your partner do all of the work.

          Many times people are in situations where it is hard to tell what the right choice is.  Especially with friends it can be tricky on how you should react in a given situation.  Do you want to be their best friend or the tattle tail?   To me the ethical duty as a friend is to make sure that if they are in trouble you help them.  Even if they get mad at you, you still did the right thing.  If one of my friends were to give out their address to a stranger on the Internet I would become very scared for her.  I would go and privately speak to her parents about the matter.  I think that my friend would be thankful for saving her and her family from a complete stranger walking up to their home.

          Ethics applies to journalism.  With unbiased reporters the news has all factual information.  If a journalist interviewed a woman about a presidential election who said something bad about one of the candidates and the reporter felt the same way doesn't mean that they should publish the comment based on personal feelings.  A journalist has an ethical duty to report the right information to their audiences.  People shouldn't be misinformed because of a journalist’s feelings towards something.