ABSTRACT
The zeal to discover and publish interesting facts can lead to certain kinds of moral abuses, even when the public’s legitimate interests are served by a journalist’s activity. There seems to be an ethical conflict once again for news reporters working to fulfill their primary moral obligation to maximize information delivery. If the public is interested in the private lives of political, sports, and entertainment celebrities or, indeed, of anyone at all, and if there are profits to be made in invasive types of news coverage, should journalists extend their investigations to the most intimate details of people’s daily activities, of what such persons do when they think they are alone and unobserved?
