Journalists face many ethical problems. One of these ethical issues are Deontological ethics which is the ethics of duty meaning some actions are always right and some are always wrong. People that are deontologists believe that ends never justify the means. This belief is often called absolutism. Absolutists believe that if an event is interesting, timely, significant or important, it is to be reported, regardless of the consequences.
Another form of ethics is teleological ethics, and this is all about the end justifying the means to get there. In this perspective, if you have to do something bad, such as lie to get a good news story, as long as you have a good news story that possibly exposes something bad in the end you are okay.
Lastly Antinomianism is when journalists believe there are no moral absolutes and that every situation is different and you have to apply your own ethics to each case.
When it comes down to it, journalists have their own opinions of ethics, and have to use there own jurisdiction.
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