What is the most ethical action for the network to take?
have the journalist give the accurate account of the
incident and apologize for lying to viewers
a marine captain is accusing a major news network's
journalist of lying in a story. the journalist, who was with
the marines on patrol, wrote that the helicopter he was in
came under sniper fire.
the journalist admits to his producers that he
embellished the story. the journalist was not under fire,
but other choppers behind him were struck. the
producers want to minimize the damage to the network
and are unsure how to proceed.
have the journalist report on air that he was
confused and "misreported the incident
offer a settlement to the marine captain for
withdrawing his accusation
ask the journalist to discredit the marine captain by
discussing the captain's poor leadership in a new
story