Spring 2006, Vol. 17, No. 2
1izi0hv6By Clifford G. Christians
Communitarianism is as distinct from collectivism as it is from atomistic democracy. It is a third social theory, a reaction to the black and white world of individual autonomy versus Hegelian collectivism, as Merrill would have us believe.
7qp7gj5oBy John C. Merrill
Is there hope for an ethical media system? Communitarianism certainly isn't the way, and John C. Merril thinks an ethical media can't exit, for a variety of reasons.
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laments the loss of "them damn pictures"
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Robert M. Walker & Jay Black
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draw some conclusions from the Terri Schiavo case
790ysz63Tara Giunta
describes the status of internet access in the People's Republic
4g4rwizkBy Douglas Perret Starr
In her "Plagiarists Do No Good" article in this issue of media ethics, Peggy J. Bowers does an outstanding job of reminding everyone that plagiarism is contemptible, unethical and immoral. But what happens when everything we have began with someone else's idea?
0k87lkn6By Peggy J. Bowers
A recent article in Media Ethics by Professor Douglas Starr that in effect qualified some acts of plagiarism is a dangerous stance in no uncertain terms.
Peggy J. Bowers
Professor Starr admirably recognizes that plagiarism is bad journalism, bad morality, and bad news for reader, writer and victim alike. Creativity must be celebrated and nurtured, and that which is inspired by others must be made our own.
Good Business Practices
The publisher of Namibia's German weekly, Plus, told BBC News last Fall that his newspaper erred when it published an advertisement celebrating the death of Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The ad, which Hans Feddersen, the paper's publisher, said was placed by the "International Action Against Forgetting," a group he thought was based in Germany, expressed "joy and satisfaction" at Wiesenthal's death.
CLICK HERE to read John C. Merrill's Ethical Problems: No Exit or
CLICK HERE to read Clifford G. Christians' Communitarianism: A Third Way
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CLICK HERE to read Peggy J. Bowers Plagiarists Do No Good or
CLICK HERE to read Douglas Perret Starr's A Response to Bowers.
Bowers' Call for Creativity can be found by CLICKING HERE
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considers the rights of human subjects in artistic endeavors
John Nichols & Robert W. McChesney (2005).
Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy. (New York: The New Press; distributed by W.W. Norton). 212 + xii pp. ISBN 1-59588-016-6. $23.95 (hardbound). Illustrations by Tom Tomorrow, foreward by Tim Robbins, sources and acknowledgments.
Chad Raphael (2005).
Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press). 304 + x pp. ISBN 0-252-03010-9. $45.00 (hardbound). List of abbreviations, notes, index. For those who are interested in the myriad relationships between content, ownership and regulation, or even those who merely believe that the documentary is both the highest form of television programming and the prime example of the "watchdog" function of journalism, this is a book for you.
xdm749awBy Douglas Perret Starr
Once you have become a speech ghostwriter, writing speeches to be delivered by someone else who will take credit for your work, you will become a target of attack from two sources: from yourself, when you question whether what you are doing is ethical; and from people who accuse you of confusing history by inserting your own writing style and ideas into the style and ideas of the speaker.