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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media, 7/e
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Exercise 27.1
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Exercise 27.3
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Exercise 27.5
Exercise 27.6
Exercise 27.7
Exercise 27.8
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Ethics and Fairness: Responsibility to Society

Exercise 27.1

Complete this exercise offline and then either e-mail or hand the exercise in to your instructor.

The high school football team has just won the state championship even though its coach is battling Hodgkin's disease. The coach is a popular person around town, and the newspaper decides to do a feature story on how he put aside his personal struggle to guide his players to achieve their goals. Nearly everyone at the school and in the tow who knows the coach is aware of the nature of his illness. However, when the reporter starts interviewing the coach, he insists that the story cannot mention the disease. The reporter protests that the way he is coping with the disease is precisely the point of the story. Still, the coach will not budge. What should the reporter do?