Essay Part One
If I were to encounter a situation where I worked for a news organization that was owned by a big company, I would be fairly careful about how I handled a situation that would compromise the profitability or the success of that corporation. It would be a difficult decision to make if I were faced with the possibility of reporting a story that demonizes the parent company’s refrigerators and presented them as fire hazards. There are a lot of considerations to make in this decision, all of which I would have to keep in mind.
The media carries a social responsibility to provide the news that ...