Re:Was the Art of S-Town Worth the Pain?
by stevenwoo on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:34PM
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Reed's spending 5-10 minutes in that one episode defending his actions was not very convincing to me - where he said he had to guess what the subject would think.
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Re:Was the Art of S-Town Worth the Pain?
by accountyaccount on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:57PM
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>he had to guess what the subject would think
Yeah, that's just not ethical as far as I'm concerned. When you're guessing about consent you should assume you don't have it.
It's tough to discuss without spoilers, but there's no way he could get consent, right? And there's no family to seek consent from (save his mother who didn't seem lucid enough to consent) but he did have consent from the other people he interviewed.
I don't even know.. I felt uneasy listening at times due to this exact question, but I don't think it was unethical at all.
Re:Was the Art of S-Town Worth the Pain?
by accountyaccount on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:48PM
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I guess it's Journalistically Ethical, but as a person it just didn't see morally right to me. I think it went from telling a compelling story to airing something the subject didn't explicitly disclose, and in some regards intentionally masked.