"Ethics Pays!" (or at least: "Lack of Ethics Costs!")

http://www.businessethics.ca/blog/2007_03_01_archive.html
Amazingly, I found a blog by a man named Chris Macdonald, called The Business Ethics Blog. Now that is right up my alley. He has many different blogs concentrating on todays issues with business' unethical behavior. I chose my favorite of his articles, the one that most concerns my subject, but I hope to make further use of his blog in my research.

From today's NY Times: Editor Fired After Uproar Over Simpson
Although you cannot get the entire article without a five dollar subscription, I will give you a brief idea of whats going on here.
Judith Regan, the firebrand editor who stirred up decade-old passions last month with her plan for a book and television interview with O. J. Simpson, was fired on Friday by HarperCollins, the publishing company that oversaw her book business. HarperCollins announced the firing, “effective immediately,” in a two-sentence news release... (and thats all you will get from the site without a subscription.)
Chris' thoughts : So, the positive ethics-spin: "Look! HarperCollins & News Corporation are responsive to public values!"The negative ethics-spin: "HarperCollins & News Corporation love ya when it looks like you'll make them money, and hates you when it looks like a project is going to hurt the company's image."
My thoughts: Although the O.J. Simpson case has been lying dead for some great while, I do not find it unethical to produce anything with interviews from him. The business got scared that the public would believe that they backed up Simpson in his murder case, and it scared them. Although from the front side, the public may see this as the business being ethical for firing her because of her thoughts of even mentioning Simpson and his answers within the interview, it's not. It is completely ethical for her and the business to publish this interview. Every business is too scared of what the public with think of it. Although they were trying to get the "ethical business" theme across to the public, by firing one of there employees over this somewhat trivial issue makes them seem even more unethical.