http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/naming-newsmakers/the-boy-with-a-broken-heart/ Journalism ethics cases online Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/naming-newsmakers/the-boy-with-a-broken-heart/#comment-5132 Munya Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:23:36 +0000 http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/naming-newsmakers/the-boy-with-a-broken-heart/#comment-5132 well, a sad story indeed. what juveniles do is partly attributed to them knowingly the consequences of their actions. as young as they are, they do not know what death is and what it means to anybody else. so jody acted physically toward his pal hoping that he would just get the same reaction, "quit, or stop it, or uwh..u hurting me, or i'm gonna tell Ms. Smith. however, this was not the case on this particular day. instead, something happened that he never thought would happen, well, except the retaliation as a worst possibility. But this, death, is something no-one would expect, especially having not known the conditions of his fellow classmate. a probation was right because it is good for both Jody and the community since they want to see some form of justice.