It would be harder to find ethical situations in this movie. The primary loyalties Carter had were to her profession, her employer, and herself. He did not value the truth and, in my opinion, this is disloyalty to the profession of journalism in and of itself. He didn't value his clients, the people he interviewed, he just wanted a good story and thought that if he had good intentions it didn't matter if the story was true or not. He was also insensitive towards Teresa Perrone regarding her alibi for Gallagher and her history of abortion. Immanuel Kant would probably have said that Carter's intentions were of practical reason but not of pure reason. Balaban and Rossen treated Carter as an end, not a means, manipulating her and using her for their own selfish reasons. One might say that duty-based motivations make moral decisions right, however, in my opinion, these decisions were not moral so this principle would not be