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ThursdayJan 11 at 12:42am

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The most recent article I read was a news article about how Trump did not need to interview Mueller, the man responsible for investigating Trump’s possible collusion with Russia. The article mainly consists of quotes from Trump and how the journalist interprets them. In the article Trump states that he doesn’t need to interview Mueller because there is no collusion with Russia, and that is the end of the story. I believe that this is a proper story to report because it does not violate anyone’s rights or reason to be. The article is very straight-forward and discusses the views represented by the president himself through direct quotes.

The public has a right to know this information because the president himself is disclosing it. This information isn’t classified if the president is giving the information publicly. This might be a different story if he had said these things behind closed doors, and the journalist had taken them and revealed them to the public, but this was not the case for this situation. The journalist here is just reporting on what the president has said.

The only ethical considerations I can recall from the story were the words that the journalism quoted Trump on saying. The president made multiple implications that democrats were behind any collusion with Russia. While the journalist himself isn’t responsible for these words, and is just reporting what the president said, it may be more ethically correct to leave these allegations out, since they are not backed up by any factual evidence and could be an inadvertent falsehood. Outside of this, however, I don’t believe there are any ethical considerations to be made.