All of These Are Among the Black-Steele-Barney Criteria for Ethical

All of these are among the Black-Steele-Barney criteria for ethical use of deceptive news gathering, except ...

A) All the non-deceptive alternatives must be tried first or rejected as unlikely to succeed.
B) The types of deception and their rationale must be revealed to the audience.
C) The story must be reported as soon as possible, meeting all deadlines and beating all of the competition.
D) The benefit from the story's ends must outweigh the harm from its means.