A Pressing Need For Ethics Analysis

A taxi driver's job is to drive people from one place to another and a teacher's job is to teach students. Does this mean that if a taxi driver sees a car accident while he is driving his customers he doesn’t have to stop and help? Does a teacher in a class room have to continue teaching if he realizes someone outside the class is in distress? According to Aviv Lavie, in his article "A Pressing Need for Ethics" he discusses the moral dilemma journalists have in certain situations, should they intervene or continue covering an event when they have a possibility of helping? I believe that a journalist's job is to cover events and stories around the world and bring it to the public's knowledge. On the other hand in a case that a journalist's intervention in a situation can help someone it is his duty to help. The public's right to get coverage from a scene is less important than someone's life or wellbeing.
I believe a journalist, like any other profession is first of all a human being. A human has to try and help when he sees someone in need of help. In many situations in life we can be in a dilemma as to
Otherwise there is a danger that not only will journalists not help others but they may even be happy when disasters occur and even encourage and make them happen for a good story! In Princess Dianna's death some people believe that the reason the accident occurred was because her driver was dangerously speeding in order to escape from the press. Even worse, some suspect that when the press got to the scene they photographed the accident instead of giving first aid. In this case we can see how the press lost their morality as all they cared about was getting a good photograph. If we don’t say as a public that we expect journalists to help people in distress, we shouldn’t be surprised when journalists contribute and add to a