'Business Ethics As Depicted In The Paper'

Many people would say, “Do as you are told.” But is everything you are told, correct? When an ethical decision needs to be made, should we look at the situation as a business or a personal stand point? Business ethics is conscious decisions that are made to protect or change one’s business or atmosphere and personal ethics is a conscious from within a person. Based on someone’s beliefs, culture, religion, and experiences on what they consider is right and wrong. In the movie, The Paper, the two-ethical framework that was shown were, consequentialism.
Henry Hackett was an editor for the New York Sun, who care about his job so much, that he sometime went to the extreme to cover news stories. Not everything was picture perfect with Henry; Henry had a pregnant wife at home, who felt that she was not getting the quality of time that she needed from Henry because of the time he was putting in at work. Henry did make the effort to look for a new job, and had a job interview with The New York Times. Henry like the thrill atmosphere that New York Sun provided, that he was not ready to leave. Henry and McDougal because interested in the case of two White business men in Brooklyn, were shot in their car by two young African
American men. Once news was release that they have caught the two African American men, McDougal heard over his police radio, they don’t believe the two men that were arrested are guilty of the crime.
When Henry went on the job interview for The New York Times, he took the opportunity to take a sneak peek of the information that was on the interview desk.
Henry seen this as a personal gain, which could see as consequentialism. When Henry shared the information to his colleagues, that praised him for him for what he has done. Henry felt like this is the news that New York Sun needed to continue the thrill atmosphere. Once Henry shared the information with colleagues, everyone went into action to gather as much information they could in regards to the case of the two African American men. Henry did not consider that his wife really wanted him to get that job at The New York Times, because he would have been working less hours, but more
money.
Henry also took a risk that could have caused him to lose his currently job. When the news about the African American men was being covered, Henry’s boss Alicia, approved the news article with a headline saying, two African American teens were guilty of the crime of killing the two businesses men. Henry’s wife Martha, also help with the investigation, and found out that both businessmen were bankers who stolen money and was in trouble with the mafia. Once Martha shared that information with Henry, he became curious of what was really going on with this story. So, Henry and McDougal was on a mission to find the underlying cause of the news coverage, so he went as far as sneaking into the police station to have a face to face with Officer Richie. Officer Richie made the guys promise him that they would not release his name and the source of where the information came from. Once the guys promised, Officer Richie informed them that the two teens were innocent.
Once Henry gather all the information that he needed about the case, he also believed that the two teens were innocent. Henry rushed back to his job, New York Sun, to stop the publishing of the newspaper that stated that both teens were guilty of the crime. Alicia was preventing Henry from stopping publication because the newspaper was already being printed. Henry was later able to stop the production of the newspaper from being released the following morning.