Ethically Speaking
Last Thursday I interviewed the ethicist for the New York Times. I did it for a story I'm working on, which I don't really want to say much about, so that I don't spoil it, except for that I got to interview THE ETHICIST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, and have been talking to a whole passle of lawyers, and lawyer's publicists, and today I went and interviewed my friend Jonathan Mitchel about the time he accidentally got a check from ASCAP that was meant for Joni Mitchell. Hi Jonathan!
Anyway, the ethicist is a really nice guy (people keep asking) and he was super easy to interview, and charming, and smart, and funny, and all around, well, great. But ever since my meeting with him I've felt sort of like I'm looking at things with a re-ethicized set of eyes. If such a thing exists. What I mean is, I'm stopping and questioning what the right thing to do is, and I did that quite a lot before my trip up to Randy Cohen (see mysterious, to-be-announced story above). And now I feel like I'm questioning EVERYTHING, well, ok, not Everything, but LOTS of things.
And then today, when I got home there was a package on the counter for me and the return address was from Angry Little Girls in California. And I just knew that within the package lurked something that, if opened and kept, would make me feel guilty. And I did open it and it was a guilty and enjoyable experience. Guilty because it contained what I thought it would and enjoyable because, come on - who doesn't like opening packages?
Lela Lee, the very talented and kind creator of Angry Little Girls had sent me a brand spankin' new Angry Little Girls bag like these ones here. And that would all be fine, and great and wonderful except that a few months ago I did a story on Lela and now, thanks to my new story, which, although not directly about ethics, required me to go and interview Randy Cohen (the ethicist guy) I've been looking at the world afresh and I feel sort of like my eyes are head-lights and that the high beams are on, and instead of ight they are beaming ethics and it's scary, but what I really want to know is:
Can I keep the Angry Little Girls Bag? And if I do will I go to un-ethical journalist's hell where I will burn forever?
****Update****
It's ok to keep the bag. My mom says so.
Anyway, the ethicist is a really nice guy (people keep asking) and he was super easy to interview, and charming, and smart, and funny, and all around, well, great. But ever since my meeting with him I've felt sort of like I'm looking at things with a re-ethicized set of eyes. If such a thing exists. What I mean is, I'm stopping and questioning what the right thing to do is, and I did that quite a lot before my trip up to Randy Cohen (see mysterious, to-be-announced story above). And now I feel like I'm questioning EVERYTHING, well, ok, not Everything, but LOTS of things.
And then today, when I got home there was a package on the counter for me and the return address was from Angry Little Girls in California. And I just knew that within the package lurked something that, if opened and kept, would make me feel guilty. And I did open it and it was a guilty and enjoyable experience. Guilty because it contained what I thought it would and enjoyable because, come on - who doesn't like opening packages?
Lela Lee, the very talented and kind creator of Angry Little Girls had sent me a brand spankin' new Angry Little Girls bag like these ones here. And that would all be fine, and great and wonderful except that a few months ago I did a story on Lela and now, thanks to my new story, which, although not directly about ethics, required me to go and interview Randy Cohen (the ethicist guy) I've been looking at the world afresh and I feel sort of like my eyes are head-lights and that the high beams are on, and instead of ight they are beaming ethics and it's scary, but what I really want to know is:
Can I keep the Angry Little Girls Bag? And if I do will I go to un-ethical journalist's hell where I will burn forever?
****Update****
It's ok to keep the bag. My mom says so.
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