Full Description
Media Ethics, Ninth Edition is a diverse, classroom tested compilation of 60 diverse cases that will help students prepare for the ethical situations they will confront in their media careers. Ninety percent of the cases are based on actual events, and authors from many institutions and media outlets contributed both real-life and hypothetical cases. There is a strong focus on ethical theory and practice throughout the book, which works well as both a main text in a media ethics course, and in an "across the curriculum" approach in other media courses.Every chapter has been revised to include the most significant research and thinking about the individual topics in the field, including more attention to emerging ethical theory in the areas of privacy, truth telling, and the political role of the news media.Key updates to the Ninth Edition:*A new chapter devoted to the theory and practice of social justice*25 new cases covering current topics as diverse as "weedvertising," "Doxxing," drones, and sexual harassment in the newsroom *The implications of digital content throughout multiple media industries and platforms*Fake news*Technological invasions of privacy*The blending of entertainment, infotainment, and news
Contents
Foreword by Clifford G. Christians Preface Acknowledgments1 An Introduction to Ethical Decision MakingEssayCases and moral systemsDeni ElliottCase 1-A How to read a case studyPhilip Patterson 2Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the TruthCase 2-A Anonymous or confidential? Unnamed sources in the news Lee Wilkins Case 2-BDeath as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker Tanner HawkinsCase 2-CNews and the transparency standardLee Wilkins Case 2-D Can I quote me on that?Chad PainterCase 2-ENPR, The New York Times and working conditions in ChinaLee Wilkins Case 2-F When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting?Theodore GlasserCase 2-GIs it news yet?Michelle PeltierCase 2-HWhat's yours is mine: The ethics of news aggregationChad Painter 3Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate mean Consumer Adversary? Case 3-A WeedvertisingLee Wilkins Case 3-BCleaning up their act: The Chipotle food safety crisisKayla McLaughlin and Kelly VibberCase 3-CKeeping Up with the Kardashians prescription drug choicesTara WalkerCase 3-DBetween a (Kid) Rock and a hard placeMolly ShorCase 3-E Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the U.S. and abroadPhilip PattersonCase 3-F Sponsorships, sins and PR: What are the boundaries?Lauren Bacon BrengarthCase 3-GA charity drops the ballPhilip Patterson4 Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing AllegiancesCase 4-A Fair or foul? Reporter/Player relationships in the sports beatLauren A. WaughCase 4-BTo watch or to Report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disasterLee WilkinsCase 4-CPublic/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it work?Madison HagoodCase 4-DWhen you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom Lee WilkinsCase 4-EWhose Facebook page is it anyway?Amy SimonsCase 4-F Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and relationships in a small market Ginny WhitehouseCase 4-GQuit, blow the whistle, or go with the flow?Robert WakefieldCase 4-HHow one tweet ruined a lifePhilip Patterson 5 Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global VillageCase 5-A Drones and the newsKathleen Bartzen CulverCase 5-BConcussion bounty: Is trust ever worth violating?Lee WilkinsCase 5-CJoe Mixon: How do we report on domestic violence in sports?Brett DeeverCase 5-DLooking for Richard SimmonsLee WilkinsCase 5-EChildren and framing: The use of children's images in an anti-same-sex marriage adYang LiuCase 5-FMayor Jim West's computerGinny WhitehouseCase 5-GPolitics and money: What's private and what's notLee Wilkins6Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a PromiseCase 6-AReporting on rumors: When should a news organization debunk?Lee WilkinsCase 6-BDoxxer, Doxxer, give me the news?Mark Anthony PoepselCase 6-CThe truth about the facts: Politifact.comLee WilkinsCase 6-D WikiLeaksLee WilkinsCase 6-E "Control Room": Do culture and history matter in reporting the news?Lee WilkinsCase 6-F Victims and the pressRobert LoganCase 6-GFor God and Country: The media and national security Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle7Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom LineCase 7-A Murdoch's messLee WilkinsCase 7-BWho controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and "must-runs"Keena NealCase 7-CAutomated journalism: The rise of robot reportersChad PainterCase 7-DConflicted interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of EthicsLee Wilkins and Bonnie BrennanCase 7-ETransparency in fundraising: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting standardLee WilkinsCase 7-F News now, facts laterLee WilkinsCase 7-GCrossing the line? The L.A. Times and the Staples affair Philip Patterson and Meredith Bradford8Picture This: The Ethics of Photo and Video JournalismCase 8-AKilling a journalist on-air: A means/ends testMitchel AllenCase 8-BRemember My Fame: Digital Necromancy and the Immortal CelebritySamantha MostCase 8-CProblem photos and public outcryJon RoosenraadCase 8-DAbove the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standardsJim Godbold and Janelle HartmanCase 8-EHorror in Soweto Sue O'BrienCase 8-FPhotographing funerals of fallen soldiersPhilip Patterson9Informing a Just SocietyCase 9-A "Spotlight": It takes a village to abuse a childLee WilkinsCase 9-B"12th and Clairmount": A newspaper's foray into documenting a pivotal summerLee WilkinsCase 9-CCincinnati Enquirer's heroin beatChad PainterCase 9-DFeminist fault lines: Political memoirs and Hillary ClintonMiranda AtkinsonCase 9-EGoldieBlox: Building a future on theftScott Burgess10The Ethical Dimensions of Art and EntertainmentCase 10-AGet Out: When the horror is raceMichael Fuhlhage and Lee WilkinsCase 10-BTo die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare 2Philip PattersonCase 10-CDaily dose of civic discourseChad PainterCase 10-DThe Onion: Finding humor in mass shootingsChad PainterCase 10-EHate radio: The outer limits of tasteful broadcastingBrian SimmonsCase 10-F"Searching for Sugar Man": Rediscovered artLee Wilkins11 Becoming a Moral AdultBibliographyIndex
