" The Falling Man "

After watching the documentary on " The Falling Man", I now have to explain which codes it violated in the RTNDA Code of Ethics .. I think.

The documentary was quite captivating and showed a whole new side to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

I belive, when researchers tried to identify the falling man, they interfeared with the 'privacy' code. I believe this because the photo was very graphic.. and left a lot of images left to the imagination - of what happened to the man after the photo was taken. I feel that having the picture published was interfearing with the man's privacy, and rights as a person.

In the journey of finding out who the man was, another code that was violated was definetly accuracy. The media had identified a man, and then said it wasn't him, then attempted to identify him as someone else soon after. They should not have published the first story at all and just waited until they knew exactly what was going on - with no doubts.

I also think that this photo being published violated the respect code.. because, the picture was very disturbing and all of the pictures taken.. a lot were jumpers, and who wants to see that? A lot of people found it very disrespectful and did not understand why the media released it as a huge centerfold print.

All in all, the documentary was very interesting..
I hope I did this assignmeng correctly..

Brynn :)