Ethical Issue

The story I found is of a similar nature to the one that Drew discussed. It is also a story about a professor sexually harassing both students and teachers. This would be a perfectly newsworthy story, if the case hadn't been resolved in 2004.

"Sexual harassment allegation's don't hinder professor's career" was a piece written in 2008 about the fact that a Professor Blount was still able to gain employment at another university while his sexual harassment investigation was still going on. The main issue is that Blount found employment at the University in Texas back in 2004, four years prior to the publication of this article. The case, itself, was resolved on May 7, 2004. So why is this pertinent information in 2008?

It seems that the author of this story was just hoping to ride the buzz of "sexual harassment," regardless of the timeliness of the story. Obviously, Professor Blount was in the wrong, but it occurred four years ago. There's no need to bring up his name again, especially when he doesn't even work for the University of Georgia anymore. There's an issue of ethics as well as common sense in this case. Unless something has changed in an old case, or somehow it has become newsworthy four years after it occurred; don't publish a story about it.