Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ethics
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:53:33 -0800

At 01:09 AM 11/25/1999 +0000, Johnny Deadman wrote:
>Hmmm. So that documentary I made that exposed brutality in a psychiatric
>hospital and caused a year long public inquiry, that involved deception in
>order to get the statements from the patients out of the hospital, and our
>cameras in, was unethical?

No, that's not what Bob means. He means when it's not an earth-shaking 
subject that the public might have a right to know about, then the ethics 
might cause us to not do it.

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Ted Kennedy