knowledge. This can be scene through their clear lines of communication with the readers. All ethical business issues are carefully looked out before anything is possibly exploited to the reader that may incorrect or exaggerated. Back a couple of years in 1995, a situation arose where the well-respected Time Magazine published a story regarding pornography on the Internet. This story was not aimed at informing the public of a new finding, but it was aimed at gaining the attention of readers to push sales. This was its first unethically action that wound up misinforming readings and possibly tarnishing a number of Internet providers even those possibly associated with the Time company. Fortunately, back then the Internet market was not nearly the size it is today which means fewer readers truly felt impacted by this story. On the other hand this article could have been responsible for forming many first impressions regarding the Internet and who exactly should and should not be using it as a source of information.The story was titled “CyberPorn” and proclaimed that online almost 85% of all sites were pornography. In reality- porn sites amount to only 1% of the total postings on the web. Here Time magazine made a major mistake in misinforming the reader and blatantly publishing information that was not reliable. After all this being called to their attention the magazine claimed someone unrelated to their staff was responsible and that no expert had evaluated the article until after it had hit the newsstands and made a number of sales. This type of situation is very wrong in the world of media. The editor of Time admitted to being wrong and claimed the readers should have been given the respect of proper information. Here Time magazine did not take their responsibility properly and wound up committing unethical actions. In addition to the upset by the readers for not being able to trust a well-known newsmagazine, Time put at ...
