My take on the Ethics of Journalism

The definition of Ethics in the dictionary is- A set of principles of right conduct.
Ethics in journalism is about being truthful in what you write. Also ethics equals good journalism. Ethics in journalism is about what you do and say when no one is looking or monitoring you at the moment. Ethics has nothing to do with obeying laws or following the rules, it is about if it is the right decision to make on your part, and how we need to see how we partane to other peoples feelings before we affect them in any way. Journalistic ethics truly plays out when your in public, like perhaps if you write a article about a fat woman and she didn't know that you were, we need to think ahead in time so that we don't hurt the woman's feelings or affect her in any way. Also if you sensationalize a article it could affect millions of people in all kinds of different ways,like mobs can start, or maybe wars, or innocent people dying because there was a tiny lie in a newspaper article(these are all worst case scenarios). When you make decisions in journalism we should think of ethics, so we should ethically decide if this decisions is the right one and we need to think who will this affect and dose this make me a good or bad journalist. Ethics is truly mainly about behavior and decision making. In journalism when writing an article or working on one you should always think ethically when making the decision and we should make sure that our behavior is being ethically correct for what ever situation, and that our behavior should not affect the ethics of journalism, and that we should always make sure we are being ethical about all our decisions pertaining to journalism. Ethics in Journalism is all ways about our behavior, our decision making, and also how we play out in public. Ethics has everything to do with Journalism.