Sunday, June 16, 2013

Media Ethics

There was a lot of controversy about a Facebook photo that had been circulated by a Steph Strayer, stating, 
"If this is your husband, I have endured a 2 hour train ride from Philadelphia listening to this loser and his friends brag about their multiple affairs and how their wives are too stupid to catch on. Oh please repost..."
Although Strayer is not a professional journalist mandated into following media ethics, I do believe that she invaded a certain kind of personal space regarding the relationship between a man and his wife. Granted, that man was a infidel imbecile who deserved to be shamed, however I do not think that his wife should be involved in that kind of humiliation. Regardless of whether the man was telling the truth or not, this act of posting on a social networking media the internet, where it will never be erased, is obscene and it's not any stranger's moral duty to let such a fragile piece of information be delivered to a person in such an insensitive way.

1 comment:

  1. Libel and privacy laws apply to everyone, not just journalists, but I don't think the guy would have a case either way. But I agree that the woman posting this overstepped her moral responsibility.

    ReplyDelete