Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Be attentivly

About a year ago a local correspondent of the media company İ used to work for, made a radio story on narcomania and send it for edition.
By an accident the editor was me. I had to read out the narration, edit the sound bytes together and put it on the list for broadcasting. The author introduced one of the narcomans with a symbol name mentioning that he did not want his name to be disclosed as his family was not aware of his troubles regarding narcomania. After two months when my another colleauge was reviewing archive material found out that in the sound byte the man was saying both his first and last name and neither me, no the author had paid an attention to that. We should have chosen this part of the quote actually. It was completely unethical. I really felt shy when knew about this mistake. I should have been especially sensitive because it was a story on a sensitive people –narcomans.

1 comment:

Dr. Von said...

Paying attention and being attentive to details are important aspects of ethics. They can make the difference between private information and public disclosure.