staging ethics

I think it is funny how everyone here is saying that staging anything is bad but more than likely at one point in our careers someone will do something to push the line and see what we can get away with that is still "ok". I think that this is because the rules are so hard to understand. It is confusing as to what we can do or can't do and that is why people will continue to push the limits and see what they can get away with. It isn't right and obviously people shouldn't fake anything that isn't real but there are smaller things about journalism that are questionable and we don't have a clear cut answer on. For those things that are wrong then people should feel the consequences of those if that means losing their job or whatever.

There was a case of this at KOMU last fall during Friday night football coverage when someone bought and then made signs promoting the station only to give them to fans at a game and then show them in their package on TV. People found out that it was fake and weren't too happy, but even things like that are sketchy to how far people can take and where they should draw the line.