risk any Internet providers that they may have had relations with any of the many companies Time is affiliated with. They gave a false report that could have severely hurt the Internet market if the article’s mistakes had been overlooked. Time as a form of media did not make a good decision in communicating the ethics of business and put a number of companies at risk due to the misleading information they presented to so many readers. They did not communicate clearly and resulted in obstructing their responsibility to their readers.Time Magazine was also involved in a misreporting on a featured story regarding the funding of the Kosovo Liberation Army. This mistake was picked up by an organization known as FAIR…or Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Basically, the ethical issue at hand was that Time said that the KLA was receiving its donations from charities, fundraisers and other sources. They failed to overlook that these other sources were from drug proceeds. Time more or less sentimentalized the KLA and sugar coated its actions. Here again wrong information was given to its readers. There lack of information and generalizations gave the reader a resulting bad impression of the story presented. The editors overlooked much of the necessary elements that would have made this a well-rounded, truthful report. Instances like these can and will eventually diminish the value of a report and its reporters, also causing a business represented to be diminished in value.In the media industry, especially with the medium of magazines there is more time to prepare. It is not live, breaking news material that is facing a deadline. This therefore makes the ability to deal with every ethical issue at hand with a little more concern and alertness. There really is no excuse in misreporting things like facts because facts are not questionable- that is as long as the information is reliable. AOLAmerica Online is a large name in the media in...
