let's go line by line here, @mtracey, because this is thoroughly unpersuasive and it's worth talking about whypic.twitter.com/Kpkeq3E3Rc
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The onus is not on journalists to "minimize collateral damage" in the manner you claim. If the associate's employment status is deemed relevant to the story -- which it was here -- then giving that assurance ("I won't bring them up") would be journalistically invalid
i simply don't understand this, as a matter of ethics you simply do not weigh consequences? at all? they have zero relevance to the newsgathering process and whether or not to publish?
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