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'The Ethicist': Read a Personal Blog?

NPR | By Randy Cohen
Published June 21, 2003 at 11:00 PM CDT

What would you do if you stumbled across a friend's very personal Web log? Should you stop reading subsequent entries out of respect for her privacy? Randy Cohen, who writes "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine, discusses that ethical dilemma and others in his latest appearance on the show.

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Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
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