Looking Up - The Ethic of Responsibility

The need of increasing campaigns' ethical focus due to changing consumer priorities in the recession is the focus of this article.

The Ethic of Responsibility

Well, as usual, Barbara Walters got the interview that scooped the competition when President-elect Barack Obama said, in answer to one of her questions, that he thought the auto-industry executives who flew into Washington on their private company jets lobbying for bailout money were obviously “tone deaf” to the concerns of ordinary Americans in the current financial crisis. And he didn't stop there.

In an interview to be aired Wednesday night on ABC, Obama chided “captains of industry” for tapping into public bailout funds while still indulging themselves with corporate perks. Such actions, he said, show...

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