[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[David Goodman]

Ethical problems in the RW are decided not by abstract principles but
of what actual people do, and we are inevitably influenced by our
social situation. Most (or almost all) people would enforce a rule
like do no harm much more strongly when the harm is to named
individuals whom they are aware of , and who are similar to them, and
when they judge the person involved as not being guilty of harming
others.  The current statement of BLP ignores this, presumably taking
it for granted.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> Or since reporting on people and events can have negative effects in
> general including death, are we now not to report on people and events if those
> effects are negative toward us or ours?  But it's evidently OK using the NYT
> double-standard to report on them if they are negative toward "the other".
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