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For each of the ethical dilemmas outlined below, please provide an explanation for how you would handle the situation and what ethical principles or frameworks would guide your decision.
Ethical Dilemma #1
Your regular beat includes stopping by the mayor’s office most days of the week, and you regularly talk with the mayor’s secretary. One day the secretary says that she will treat you to lunch and the two of you can discuss “what goes on behind the scenes.” Should you accept the offer of a free lunch, even if she says that is the only way you will get the information?
Ethical Dilemma #2
A local member of the city council has been arrested for soliciting a prostitute. This man, whose wife died six months earlier from breast cancer, has two daughters ages 11 and 15. The daughters are schoolmates and friends of your children, and you are aware they are in counseling to deal with their mother’s death and have had a very hard time with it. You alone have this story. Do you run it?
Ethical Dilemma #3
You recently discovered your newspaper’s biggest advertiser, Michael Moore, has received his second DWI and has lost his driver’s license. Moore is the owner of Moore’s Ford Dealership and is a golfing buddy of your newspaper publisher. The DWI is public record, so other media outlets should eventually have it, but nothing has been published yet. What do you do with this tip you received over the telephone from a friend inside the police department?
