The Associated Press
Published on 7/7/2004
Excerpt:
The media should seek access to such information but must weigh the potential harm and benefits before publishing, said Bob Steele, senior ethics faculty for The Poynter Institute, a journalism research and education center in St. Petersburg, Fla.
“There must be a purposeful, deliberative, serious conversation about the content of the documents,” he said. “There must be a very high threshold set by the journalists in order to justify using such potentially harmful information.”
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