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INTEREST: Convention Runner Ryan Kopf Banned from Anime Milwaukee Following Alleged Sexual Assault

We may have the right to link to the recording. But that also means we have the right to not link to it. Our editors exercised that right. One of the responsibilities of journalists is to weigh the potential harm in publishing material. Journalists who publish everything they are allowed to publish, consequences be damned, are unethical. This article went through an ethics check with an outside ethics advisor, they agreed with the decision not to link to the recording.

1.) Ethics.. News sites rush to report facts, or more commonly facts that appear to be correct at the time. Regardless of consequences and damage to the character of the individual in question. At the time of this post without due process, this guy is innocent until proven guilty. Is it Ethical to promote 1 side of information, and allow judgement by his peers via the internet without any burden of proof?

2.) Claimed Objectiveness.. Media or News sites have a job to inform the public. Not to filter or make judgements for the public. You report and let your readers build their own opinions. Nothing more and nothing less. The sad part of the current state of affairs is nobody seems to care about this anymore, this is very dangerous to a Democratic society

1.) Ethics.. News sites rush to report facts, or more commonly facts that appear to be correct at the time. Regardless of consequences and damage to the character of the individual in question. At the time of this post without due process, this guy is innocent until proven guilty. Is it Ethical to promote 1 side of information, and allow judgement by his peers via the internet without any burden of proof?

2.) Claimed Objectiveness.. Media or News sites have a job to inform the public. Not to filter or make judgements for the public. You report and let your readers build their own opinions. Nothing more and nothing less. The sad part of the current state of affairs is nobody seems to care about this anymore, this is very dangerous to a Democratic society.

News sites rush to report facts, or more commonly facts that appear to be correct at the time. Regardless of consequences and damage to the character of the individual in question. At the time of this post without due process, this guy is innocent until proven guilty. Is it Ethical to promote 1 side of information, and allow judgement by his peers via the internet without any burden of proof?

Pornographic or not, a video and audio is sketchy. At its best, it would be consensual AND the person on it knew she was being recorded. At worst, it would make Kopf look like an absolute scum bag for filming a sexual encounter without the partner's knowledge.

KyuuA4 wrote:

He needs to end up in jail.

AiddonValentine wrote:

Well, he can go straight to hell

No, what he needs is to be tried in a court of law and that of public opinion. Remember in American you can be accused, tried and convicted by public opinion whether something is true or not. It use to be innocent until proven guilty.

I neither know this man, nor have direct first hand knowledge of anything he has said or done, but it seems that Americans are so quick to assume the worst in everyone or anything.

If this guy is arrested, and brought before a trial by his peers and is convicted, then so-fore he is guilty of the crime he is accused of, until then, everything else is an accusation, reinforced by whatever emotional sense of empathy or sympathy one has for the accuser.

I can see both sides of the story as a grandparent who had a grand child who was actually sexually assaulted, and another one who was accused of sexually assaulting someone else, where both cases played out in the justice system, and both unrelated events were proven correct. I've also first hand in my journalism career seen the fall out of someone wrongly accused of a crime they did not commit, and the results of a victim of a crime who was found not-guilty.

My gut tells me Kopf is likely guilty, but until I am sitting in a jury bench, I'll still maintain my objectivity.

These allegations are consistent with what people already know about his behavior. That’s also why, for example, the allegations against Vic Mignogna ring true—because they tracked with what many already knew about him, or they knew of something he did with a similar MO, but didn’t spread that through the wider community at the time for fear of rocking the boat.

No news outlet is objective. They all have their own beliefs and agenda and why some news sources just simply won't report on certain events if it makes their people or politics look bad. That's why you should make it a habit of reading multiple sources from multiple perspectives in order to stay educated about everything.

I'm curious why background checks are not being used for ALL staff at these cons.