Approaches to Media Ethics  

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Ward, Stephen J. A.

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Ethics and the Media: An Introduction, page 52-87.
Topik: Media Ethics; Ethical Reasoning; Aims and Principles
Fulltext: Approaches to Media Ethics.pdf (391.14KB)

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Suppose you are a reporter in London, England. You are covering a hotly contested general election for Parliament. Someone tells you at a social event that there are allegations that John Jones, the Conservative Party leader, has sexually harassed women on his of? ce staff. That “someone” is Jason, a senior election worker for the Labour Party. Jason mentions that a woman in Jones’s of?ce, Martha, has told fellow staffers about his actions. You contact Martha by telephone. She con? rms she was sexually harassed by Jones. She hints there may be other victims, but refuses to go into detail. Martha says she is considering laying a complaint with the police. “Please don’t use my name,” she asks. Sitting at your newsroom desk, you feel uncertain about your next step. Should you report this allegation immediately, using the information that you have? How would that affect the woman, the politician, the election? Should you use the woman’s name? Why are you feeling uncomfortable when this is a great news story? This case is an example of the dif? cult ethical situations that confront news media on a daily basis. To learn how to address these situations in a responsible manner, we need to show how our understanding of ethics applies to the domain of news media. In Chapter 1 , we discussed the nature of ethics and how we theorize about ethics, philosophically and practically. Chapter 1 provided the ? rst part of our ethical framework – the basic concepts of ethics. We now apply this general orientation to media ethics. We develop the second part of our conceptual framework: how to approach media ethics and how to reason about issues. We will be working in the area of applied ethics, combining normative and framework ethics. The framework in question will be the general principles that appear in major codes of media ethics.

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