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Running Head: FIRST AMENDEMENT: INFOMRATION

FIRST AMENDMENT: INFORMATION

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FIRST AMENDEMENT: INFOMRATION 2

It seems as a publisher that we have come to a crossroads in determining the

ethical responsibility we have for reporting to our general jurisdiction as well as the

consideration to those that have lost their child in the accident. The question we are at

is how much information does publisher and the media have and to what extent is there

lawful restraint during the moral values within the case to be presented. For example,

when reporting factual information, I think the importance of being honest, truthful, and

forthcoming is essential to both a personal and professional characteristics of an

individual. Under the First Amendment, we are all guaranteed the right to free speech,

however, as a reporter for a local newspaper, it would seem moral and ethically

persuasive cannot report on certain information. However, since we are a local

newspaper we are expected to perform to a certain degree of accuracy within our

capabilities, therefore, facts must be associated with the case and although the case is

tragic the case can be used as a billboard from drinking and driving when associated

with teenagers.

Does a journalist reporting question is what right do we have to publish

information in its entirety, its factuality, including its potentially traumatic repercussion

within our jurisdiction. When considering is lawful right under the First Amendment to

the United States Constitution, we can refer to Nebraska Press Association vs Stewart

1976 (Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, 1976) as the basis and foundation

providing factual statements including graphical and horrendous pictorials as well as

information. The fact that the driver was drinking has no impact on presenting the data

within the newspaper as society is fairly familiar with the ongoing tragedies of teenage

drinking and driving. The fact that the girls were nude at the time of the accident is a

questionable statement to be made to the public with regards to the family’s emotional

situation given that they had just lost their child in a car accident. The responsibility of

publishing these facts in the reporting of the accidents would then fall to the reporter

herself or himself as well as the publishing newspaper company. Reporting whether the

girls were nude, I believe, if something more of a moral and ethical judgement over, and

perhaps trumping, First Amendment rights when considering the emotional state the

parents who just lost their teenagers in a deadly tragic car accident as a result of

drinking. When considering the alternative such as the situational circumstances facing

the parents involved, producing false and unverified statements would not only create a

more intensified situation, it will also compromise the integrity of the publications image

as well as the potential onset of civil suits for financial damages. When information is

not authenticated, data is no longer worth any value for the public, so why to publish it.

The unfortunate fact to this case is that no one is able to report on anything

considering that as the reporter who is to report has only been involved in storage room

gossip. There is no factual evidence to the case, no one has been interviewed, there is

no evidence of sexual assault regardless of nudity, and however, the story in its entirety

cannot be told or reported within the newspaper. As in the case of garrison vs Louisiana

in 1964 (Garrison v. Louisiana, 1964), the publishing of such statements is considered

an actual act of behavioral malice and reckless disregard for the truth. As a reporter, I

would think that such said individuals, or, at least, expect such said individuals, to report

on facts based that are accompanied with evidentiary value. Considering the case is

missing these fundamental concepts of burden of proof, it would be unlawful, unethical,

and immoral of the reporter to the delivery of statements through the media's presence.

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Running Head: FIRST AMENDEMENT: INFOMRATION FIRST AMENDMENT: INFORMATION You’re name Professors Name Course Title Submission Date FIRST AMENDEMENT: INFOMRATION 2 It seems as a publisher that we have come to a crossroads in determining the ethical responsibility we have for reporting to our general jurisdiction as well as the consideration to those that have lost their child in the accident. The question we are at is how much information does publisher and the media have and to what extent is there lawful restraint during the moral values within the case to be presented. For example, when reporting factual information, I think the importance of being honest, truthful, and forthcoming is essential to both a personal and professional characteristics of an individual. Under the First Amendment, we are all guaranteed the right to free speech, however, as a reporter for a local newspaper, it would seem moral and ethically persuasive cannot report on certain information. However, since we are a local newspaper we are expected to perform to a certain degree of accuracy within our capabilities, therefore, facts must be associated with the case and although the case is tragic the case ...
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