This American Life and the Ethics of Journalism

I neither watch nor listen enough to Ira Glass’ This American Life, and I really need to. Take a look at this four minute video illustrating one of the stories they did.

We’ll be talking about ethics in the intro classes next week, this will come up. Why does the camera (or the pen and paper) become a barrier to our humanity? Should it?

(Thanks to Multimedia Shooter for the link, we’re glad to have you back.)