ABSTRACT
Although it is important to acknowledge these findings, we also believe a deeper reading of the data, coupled with our own professional experience as journalists, suggest a more sanguine interpretation. Ethical journalists were those professionals who had a strong internal sense of the appropriate professional choices. In many instances, that strong internal sense had to act as counterweight to a professional environment-the same environmental that journalists credited with influencing their decisions. What should readers and journalism students make of these two claims?
