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Sports Luminaries And Suicide Case Study

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Discuss the following questions: (you will need to know about the 1st Amendment to answer #3)
1. Was the question in poor taste? Was it badly motivated? Do either of these matter? The question was a direct question in which, he was told not to ask but he asked the question anyway. By asking the question after being told not to is undermining
2. Should reporters probe into the personal and sexual lives of public official and politicians? Sports luminaries? Entertainment stars? I reason that reporters should respect privacy no matter a person’s social status, and furthermore if a person is not famous there is no probing into their personals lives. Being that public officials, politicians, sport luminaries and entertainers are public figures

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