Consider This Scenario: You Have Just Begun Volunteering at a Local

Multiple Choice

Consider this scenario: You have just begun volunteering at a local campaign office for the state representative for your district. You have never gotten involved in a real political race before and you are excited. As soon as the campaign manager discovers that you are an English major and technologically savvy, the campaign manager puts you to work, "Get on the Internet and find some dirt on the opposition candidate. I don't care what you find. I don't care if it's true, as long as someone else said it first. We don't want anyone to think we're making this stuff up."
You are immediately troubled by this request. You are excited to perform some research and investigate the opposing candidate, you are worried about the statement that the campaign manager said about not caring if the information is true. What are some actions you can take to handle this situation that you feel might be jeopardizing your ethics?

A) Just do it, it isn't a paid job and you want to dig up dirt on the opposing candidate.
B) Just do it, but only report true information to the campaign manager.
C) Tell the campaign manager you majored in English, but it was in historical literature, so you do not know how to research very well.
D) Be polite and kindly ask the campaign manager to please clarify the request to research inaccurate information.