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Don't
question ethics
In response
to the Union's staff editorial on Tuesday ("Our View:
Journalistic Ethics") in the Union newspaper, the Daily
Forty-Niner does recycle its newspaper rather than leave
it yellowing on the stands. We are a daily, not a "sometimes
we publish" publication.
I am sorry
to have seen what looks like a garbage bin full of
Forty-Niners -- however, I can't be sure what is actually
in the bin other than what's on top.
But let's
talk ethics -- the manager of the recycling center
is also the business manager for the Union newspaper.
What an opportunity to chalk up a few brownie points
and snag some advertising since the Union has never
been able support itself through advertising sales.
How can
the Union run an opinion piece without checking facts
and getting comments from the Daily Forty-Niner? Instead
they got their information from their business manager.
There's
no telling what kind of dirt the Union can dig up
now -- using the recycling center as an informant.
You may
want to think twice before recycling personnel documents,
class syllabi, class rosters or anything. It gives
me the creeps to think of someone going through my
trash.
And the
next time you decide to trash an entire organization
because of one incident you may want to consider the
adage people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones.
Jamie
M. Eggleston is the Daily Forty-Niner production manager.
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