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A Media Ethics
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Its 8.30 pm and your reporter has just filed a rip-roaring
expose on a money laundering firm where the owner is described as being
unavailable for comment. |
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Tell your reporter the story won`t go unless he gives the
accused person a right of reply |
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Say well done my boy, and slap it onto page one |
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Tell him to land up at the person`s house and get a quote
from wife, kid, maid or poodle if the owner of the firm is not there. |
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2 |
A new restaurant is opening in town and a smiling
publicist arrives with an invite. |
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Say thanks, and I`ll see if somebody can be spared. |
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Say I`m not free that day but I`d like a rain check. |
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Say thanks, and can I bring my wife. |
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3 |
Your competition is giving away free copies to boost
circulation. |
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Increase incentives for your circulation executives. |
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Print even more copies and sell them as raddi |
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Carry a huge ad making fun of them |
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4 |
An airline is starting a new service from your city to
Paris and journalists are being taken on a free flight. You have to decide
whom to send |
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Your paper`s civil aviation correspondent |
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Your star writer so that she can produce colourful copy |
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Your wife who is a free lance journalist. |
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5 |
There is a cyclone in Orissa. |
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Burn a hole in your news budget and despatch a reporter
and photographer |
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