Alexander England

Writers have a critical role and ethical obligations to their readers. More importantly their stakeholders. The power of words and information can cause people (the audience) to act, this in turn affects stakeholders. For example if a writer were writing about politics and how a certain party was corrupt or was lacking critical characteristics of an American party then readers could act upon this writing. Readers would hold a negative connotation to anyone who identified as that party which in turn would polarize the population. This also would affect politicians who are the stakeholders as some would more than likely lose or gain votes based on their party alignment. To address obligations to stakeholders writers should have disclaimers or discuss their writings to the stakeholders themselves in order to maintain an ethical form of writing.