Ghostwriting and the Ethics of Authenticity
This book presents an ethical framework which evaluates the legitimacy of the practice of ghostwriting. It explores the connection between personal authenticity and the use of ghostwriters in corporate, political, legal, higher education,
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John C. Knapp and Azalea M. Hulbert
Ghostwriting and the Ethics of Authenticity
John C. Knapp • Azalea M. Hulbert
Ghostwriting and the Ethics of Authenticity
John C. Knapp Hope College Holland, Michigan, USA
Azalea M. Hulbert The Pennsylvania State University Department of Education Policy Studies University Park, PA, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-01331-6 ISBN 978-1-137-31313-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-31313-3
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PROLOGUE
The CEO of a $50 billion company was invited to speak to a large group of business leaders about ethical issues facing her industry. Reading from a prepared text, she gave a thought-provoking presentation and engaged her audience in a lively give-and-take discussion. Afterward, a man accompanying her took aside the host of the meeting and introduced himself as her speechwriter. “I’m afraid her delivery was not as sharp as usual,” he apologized. “I was late finishing the speech and she had not seen it in advance.” His candor was startling, for it is not customary for ghostwriters to publicly acknowledge their work, nor is it likely the CEO would want it known that she had read the speech sight unseen. Moments later, he made a similar disclosure to a business news reporter whose afternoon wire report nonetheless attributed the words solely to the CEO. Perhaps the speechwriter assumed everyone knew the presentation was the work of a third party, as is so often the case with busy corporate executives. After all, ghostwriting for prominent leaders is so prevalent today that scarcely an eyebrow is raised on learning that a speech or other communication is the work of a hired writer. To be sure, it
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