Cause it's that black and white, because there isn't a sliding scale of ethics.... Great point. You've obviously never held a job where these sorts of things come up. Minimize a truth... Don't tell everything you know? You'd quit right? This isn't Pizza Hut, and what your doing isn't black and white. Not to offend, but I feel as if you have very limited experience in the professional world. It may not be your place to tell or share info, and you'll get fired if you shoot off your mouth. You may be tasked with delivering info that you don't want to. You will either be an idiot without a job who took a stand while the info is given out by someone else, or your will accomplish the task as professionally as possible while minimizing sensationalism and commenting on its distribution as is appropriate by giving it context without compromising your source or employer.

Life isn't Disney land, but the majority of the public expects Disneyland. Professionals tightly control the flow of information because people tend to be irrational, inflammatory, and uneducated. People also have a right to information that is pertinent, and if they are going to acquire it you have an opportunity to give it appropriate context.

Without context or knowledge the public has no basis for interpretation of information. The public tends to have neither context nor knowledge. This is how many public interest stories are made. The 750 dollar pyrimethamine price hike is an outcry. That's pricey and the increase in costs is significant. If you have paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinurea the annual treatment with eculizumab is 569,000 dollars. This same drug, while new and hard to produce, treats many other conditions that cause red blood cell destruction. The us government isn't building a fabrication plant to produce a cognate alternative. Drug costs are high... But unless they are governmentally acquired and produced should remain high because of the patent rights. It's about perspective. If you think people shouldn't be entitled to patents on drugs watch your future drugs disappear due to lack of funding.