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Undercover BBC Trip to North Korea Is Criticized

Quoted: Stephen J. A. Ward, director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, expressed surprise that the BBC had chosen to report the story as it did, though he acknowledged that undercover journalism is a widely accepted practice in Britain. ?You have to be able to say ?there is no other way we can get this story,? and that you?re not putting other people in danger,? he said.