Lying For The Pursuit Of A Lie Essay

I think that the use of hidden cameras is necessary to some degree. I think it elevates the material even more and it back ups what the journalist is attempting to prove, in the end it is all about truth and trust, and there are times that people do no trust without seeing the truth with their own eyes. Besides, it is within the laws, at least in the states where ABC investigated (North and South Carolina).

In regards about lying for the pursuit of a story is kind of paradoxical because you are trying to get a truth in exchange of a lie. I think a terrific example is the journalist Tony Horwitz, who also went “undercover,” but not really. He applied for a job at a chicken-processing plant, and he gave his legal name and even provided his education, which included a Master’s from Columbia University. He worked there and exposed food-handling violation, which he witnessed with his own eyes. There were many praises for his report, even earning him a Pulitzer Prize. I do not think under any circumstance is it ever acceptable to lie for a story, there are always other forms to obtain information—unless it is something very critical like Mike Wallace said,

I believe that ABC lied because they do not want to spend months and months in the story, just like Donovan Webster in the article “The Lying Game” said, “Journalist who lie or deceive usually don’t want to spend the time on the story that it would take to do it right. Their editors don’t want to spend the months and months it would take. Time makes editors