ethic and new media reading- the joy

ok let me say this once and probably many more times- I HATE LEARNING ABOUT EHTICS-

yes i am now suffering through an entire media ethics course and yes i do understand the value of learning ethics and thinking out ethical problems and theories and how they realte to real live decisions before actually getting to the job- but i still hate it-

also becuase the reading was so dispuresed and i dont want to sound like i have drank 50 cups of cofee i will commment on specifics.

one of the articles we had to read said journalism can do a lot but it cant do everything. how true.

however i am concerned with its example. It speaks of the well known sociological experiment that proves that we are more compasionate to a single soul suffering then two or more souls suffering. it praised the nyt for bringing the actual people away from the statistics in darfur to create more compassion among its readers.

now that is defenatly a way of telling a story.it shows whats going on an important part of whats going on but wheres the line between hard core reporting and yellow/propaganda reporting?

Is it a reporters job to evoke emotion in a reader or is it their job to tell the facts. although emotion is many times part of the story i must ask where do we stop.

should a reporter chose what emotions she will try to evoke from a reader or let the story tell itself? without having a agenda to evoke emotion

We must ask this question especially now when it becomes increasingly eawsier to have personal sotries fill the pages of newspaper websites. it wouldnt really cost the paper much to put them there but sould they- or should that be left to bloggers?