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Is Protection of Individual Privacy Still Important?

What is more important: our right to know? or individual privacy? Can varying degrees of importance really be given to these concepts? It’s really more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants situation. Often an individual’s right to privacy is outweighed by the publics right to know. But how the importance is weighed differs from news outlet to news outlet; and from journalist to journalist. These are the types of things any reporter and editor must consider before running a story—a conflict between duty and humanity. As stated in Doing Ethics in Journalism "journalists… are human beings… more than electronic button pushers."