As discussed on "Utah's Forum for Radio," ABC 4 (KTVX) anchor Terry Wood traveled to Las Vegas to hand-deliver KTVX viewer's petitions against Divine Strake, a proposed military test explosion that will take place in the deserts of Nevada.
Seven-thousand ABC 4 viewers responded to the station's collections against Divine Strake. Wood publicly criticized the test on-air, saying as a "personal note" that he was taking a stand on an issue for the first time in his forty-year career.
"I have never taken a position of advocacy before," Wood told viewers. "But more than a professional journalist, I am a citizen of Utah ....I am willing to put my career of forty years on the line."
The issue has created a few ethical questions. Television has the force to go to battle for a community's good. However, Wood's public take on the issue has a few media ethics people, including the Utah chapter of the Society For Professional Journalists raising eyebrows.
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