slidng audio

There seems to be some gray areas when it comes to ethics in journalism, and sliding audio is one of them. I think it's always good to ask yourself what purpose the audio editing serves. Is it just to clean up a story and make it sound better or is it to make people think something happend that actually didn't? Even when editing my audio stories, I wondered if it was okay to cut and paste a pause or someone saying "umm" and inject it somewhere else in a story as a transition betweeen sentences. I appreciate the sectin of the article on using file tape and the questions one should ask when using file tape. Sometimes people are entertained by watching really tragic events and enjoy watching it for the sensational value of it, just as people are entertained by violent movies. Yet, the fact that some things we see on tv news is real life with real people suffering should be more imortant than the publics desire to see something sensational.