Media Ethics: Issues and Cases
ISBN: 9780073511948 | 0073511943
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 7/21/2010
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By combining real-life and hypothetical cases with a succinct introduction to ethical theory, this text helps students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions. It is an ideal choice as the main text in a media ethics course or as a supplemental text in any course in journalism.
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| An Introduction to Ethical Decision Making | |
| Chapter 1 Essay: Cases and Moral Systems | |
| *Chapter 1 Case | |
| How to Read a Case Study | |
| Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth | |
| Chapter 2 Cases | |
| What's Yours is Mine: The Ethics of News Aggregation | |
| Is It News Yet? | |
| Visual... MORE | |
| The Spouse is Squeezed: A South Carolina TV Reporter's Attempt To Conceal Her Source | |
| When Is Objective Reporting Irresponsible Reporting? | |
| Monitoring The Monitor: Taste, Politics and an Explosive Photo | |
| Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate Mean Consumer Adversary? | |
| Chapter 3 Cases | |
| Corporate Responsibility: Just Sales or Doing Well by Doing Good? | |
| Tailgate Approved? The Rise and Fall of the Fan Can | |
| Taking It For a Spin: Accepting Product Samples in the Newsroom | |
| Was That an Apple Computer I Just Saw? A Comparison of Product Placement in U.S. Network Television and Abroad | |
| Breaking Through the Clutter: Ads That Make You Think Twice | |
| In The Eye of The Beholder: Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty | |
| Quit, Blow the Whistle or Go With the Flow? | |
| Getting The Story, Getting Arrested: Photojournalism and Activism | |
| The New York Times Sudan "Advertorial": Blood Money or The Marketplace of Ideas? | |
| Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances | |
| Chapter 4 Cases | |
| Twitter Ethics for Journalists: Can You Scoop Yourself? | |
| Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Reporting and Relationships in a Small Market | |
| A Question of Role: Is a Documentary Filmmaker a Friend, a Journalist or an Entertainer? | |
| Conflicted Interests, Contested Terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics | |
| Freebies and the Houston Rodeo | |
| Can You Relate: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity and Reporting | |
| Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village | |
| Chapter 5 Cases | |
| Funeral Photos of Fallen Soldiers: Public Interest or Public Outrage? | |
| A Person of Interest | |
| Blind Justice? On Naming Kobe Bryant's Accuser After the Rape Charge is Dropped | |
| Children Privacy and Framing: The Use of Children's Images in an Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Ad | |
| Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise | |
| Chapter 6 Cases | |
| Cable News: 24/7 Political Speech or Something Else? | |
| Victims and The Press | |
| Painful Images of War: Too painful For Whom? When? | |
| For God and Country: The Media and National Security | |
| Mayor Jim West's Computer | |
| Journalists or Jokesters: The Pimp, The Prostitute and an ACORN That Fell Away From The Tree | |
| Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line | |
| Chapter 7 Cases | |
| Crossing The Line? The L.A. Times and the Staples Affair | |
| Profit Versus News: The Case of the L.A. Times and the Tribune Company | |
| "Bonding" Announcements in the News | |
| Punishing the Messenger: The Tobacco Industry and the Press | |
| Is It News Yet? | |
| Paying the (Newspaper) Bills | |
| Picture This: The Ethics of Photo and Video Journalism | |
| Chapter 8 Cases | |
| Daniel Pearl and the Boston Phoenix: Too Much of a Bad Thing? | |
| Problem Photos and Public Outcry | |
| Manipulating Photos: Is It Ever Justified? | |
| "Above the Fold": Balancing Newsworthy Photos with Community Standards | |
| Horror in Soweto | |
| Death in Print: Publication of Hurricane Katrina Photographs | |
| Digital Manipulation as Deceit? A Case Study of a Redbook Magazine Cover | |
| New Media: Continuing Questions and New Roles | |
| Chapter 9 Cases | |
| Ethics on the Internet: Abiding By the Rules of the Road on the Information Superhighway | |
| What Were You Linking? | |
| The Information Sleazeway: Robust Comment Meets the Data Robots | |
| Death Underneath the Media Radar: The Anuak Genocide in Ethiopia | |
| Ownership of Information in a Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities | |
| Sending the Wrong Information About Doing the Right Thing | |
| Looking for Truth Behind the Wal-Mart Blogs | |
| Twitter Ethics for Journalists: Can You Scoop Yourself? | |
| The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment | |
| Chapter 10 Cases | |
| When Radio Comedy Crosses the Line: Trouble at the BBC | |
| Hardly Art | |
| "Schindler's List": The Role of Memory | |
| Naomi Campbell: Do Celebrities Have Privacy? | |
| Hate Radio: The Outer Limits of Tasteful Broadcasting | |
| Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Michael Reidel and Theater Criticism | |
| Becoming a Moral Adult | |
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