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This does strike me as a general ethical question. A publication represents an interest which sponsors its publication. A journalist who accepts employment at that publication is working for hire t...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2020-01-03T20:41:51Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T05:41:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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System
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2019-12-08T05:41:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
This does strike me as a general ethical question. A publication represents an interest which sponsors its publication. A journalist who accepts employment at that publication is working for hire to perform services for the interest that owns the paper. The interest is entitled to create an organ that represents its own views, an organ that represents a consensus view but also publishes a dissenting view, an organ that represents a consensus view without dissent, or an organ that published multiple views. None of these things are unethical. A journalist who does not feel that they can work for an interest whose publication does not allow them to express their own opinions, or to conform to and support a consensus opinion would seem to have an ethical obligation to resign. Everyone (more or less) has to right to publish their own views at their own expense. No one has to right to have their views published by someone else at the other party's expense.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-01-04T19:36:44Z (almost 8 years ago)
Original score: 1