1kbo1494By Ralph D. Barney
Someone once said that to not know is sad, but to not know you don't know is tragic. Most classically trained ethicists (as contrasted to those media ethicists who received their training as part of a journalism or mass communication program) who preach to (or about) media people tend to fall into this category.
2u0bu59cBy Claude-Jean Bertrand
I find it intriguing how U. S. media ethicists love dropping names--Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Rawls and others. Probably a habit from medieval scholastics transmitted by German scholarship. One name, however, is not often dropped, that of Jeremy Bentham.
7hobsu82By Bryan E. Denham
In August 2006, photos taken in Beirut by a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, met their journalistic demise when bloggers detected a more ominous cloud of smoke than had actually formed following an air strike by Israeli forces.
Manny Paraschos
spans the globe for "Ethicalia," minutia about media ethics.
s379088rBy Russell Frank
An editor at a Danish newspaper invites cartoonists to have a go at the Prophet Muhammad because he thinks they're practicing self-censorship. Publication of the cartoons provokes outrage in the Muslim world.
By Michael Kittross
It is always interesting to read one of John C. Merrill's essays for the first time. He poses a problem and tends to provide a solution, drawing on his broad experience as a journalist, professor and author.
rdz644soBy John C. Merrill
East is East and West is West but the twain is slowly beginning to meet. But not yet.The soft, cooperative, non-competitive, group-oriented Eastern journalism has appeared at the doors to Western journalism. And Western ethical voices are beginning to stress many of the attributes of Eastern media morality.
38hy484pBy Anthony Moretti
The BBC aired pictures of the attacks, On July 7, 2005, four terrorists exploded bombs on three trains and one bus in London, killing more than 50 people, including themselves.
891t92j4BY I. B. POOCHE
I really don't know what I do for a living. I sit at a computer and punch in numbers. I did the same thing at my last job. The numbers, I think, were about money.
BY DR. EDWARD M KIMBERLL
John Seigenthaler's latest assignment had troubled him deeply. He'd been part of the formal and intense inquiry into a scandal surrounding USA Today, a paper he had helped found.
65051ae1BY JOHN SEIGENTHALER
Over the past three years, a series of separate, disquieting events have attracted critical national attention to the practice and performance of the news media.
9dgf1rq6BY JOHN SOARES
In his study of newspaper readership, Ted Glasser observed that people who missed reading the paper felt informationally and emotionally unprepared to meet the day, and felt they were deprived not only of information but of the "serenity provided by the news reading ritual."
5k6008syBY EDWARD WASSERMAN
The topic of plagiarism draws strong opinion, as it should, and the current notoriety of theft by reporters obligates those of us who try to flesh out journalistic rights and wrongs to offer some sensible observations about originality and intellectual honesty in the newsroom.
jt0k2p03BY BOB STEELE
Success is seldom a solitary venture. Generally, when we climb the big hill, when we break out of the pack to sprint ahead to the finish line, when we achieve glory, our success is at least in part reflective of those who taught us, who guided us-our parents and other relatives and our teachers.
xol95004BY JACK LULE
The cartoon shows a bandaged quadruple amputee propped in a hospital bed. The chart at the bottom of the bed identifies the figure as "U. S. Army." A downward arrow graphs a bleak prognosis. At bedside, a doctor, with the tag Dr. Rumsfeld, scribbles in a file.
nzyd371xBY TANIA MENENDEZ HEVIA, MARIA LUISA GARCIA GUARDIA AND UBALDO CUESTA CAMBRA
There are multiple definitions of terrorism. It is a concept filled with ideological, social, political, economic and military values--among many. Above all, it is a concept with a strong emotional component, which makes difficult its rational and balanced analysis.
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