I think if you try to overthink something in a comic book you're just going to ruin it for yourself.
Case in point: you accept the idea that its ok for Peter to let JJJ use his photos to villify Spider-Man because he's only libelling himself. However, when you think about it, by damaging his own reputation as a hero Pete's making it harder for him to his own job. The public is less likely to trust him, the police waste valuable man power tracking him down instead of going after real criminals, etc.
Who knows how many lives were lost by making Spidey a less efficient hero because Pete was willing to sabotage himself all for a story conceit?
> I defy anyone to give me any reason why Peter shouldn't have taken the high road I suggested before, unless the explicit intent of this story is to portray him as both stupid and unethical.
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Simple: he's caught between the proverbial rock and hard place
> This question is one of the reasons I was very happy to see Peter move out of the photojournalism field altogether during Straczynski's run (yes, the man did do a few things right), with the other big reasons being that working as a high school science teacher a) emphasized his scientific mind more than his photographer's job ever could, b) returned him to a high school setting, and c) kept his wages at a "working class" level, since as I know from my mother, who has worked for decades as a public school teacher, you don't get rich in that career field.
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Since doing that takes away from the entire reason for having the Bugle and cast around to use as story conceits, I thought making Pete a science teacher was one of the worse ideas they had.
