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Ethics of Interviewing crime victims for the production of media stories

Ethics of Interviewing crime victims for the production of media stories

Q Read this article on ethical interviewing of crime victims. Then draft a discussion board post using no fewer than 250 words about your own thoughts on the ethics of interviewing crime victims for the production of media stories. Under what circumstances should a journalist choose not to contact a victim? We sometimes see spontaneous interviews of family members and friends after major crimes such as mass shootings - where media trucks swarm a community, and begin the process of information collection. What are your thoughts on this phenomenon, and do you think the practice is ethical, why or why not?

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There should be maintenance of ethics of interviewing crime victims for the production of media stories. In most of the cases these days, it has been observed that the journalists and media persons are not at all compassion towards the victim. They prefer to collect the new of the crime as soon as possible because there is tremendous competition in the news channel industry as well.