Media Ethics / Edition 1

by Matthew Kieran

Overview

Media Ethics brings together philosophers, academics and media professionals to debate pressing ethical and moral questions for journalists and the media and to examine basic notions such as truth, virtue, privacy, rights, offence, harm and freedom which are used in answering them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415168380
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/26/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Media Ethics: A Philosophical Approach and co-author of Regulating for Changing Values, a report for the Broadcasting Standards Commission. He has published articles in media ethics, aesthetics, ethics and social philosophy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Journalism and ethics, Andrew Belsey; Chapter 2 The journalism of attachment, Martin Bell; Chapter 3 Objectivity, impartiality and good journalism, Matthew Kieran; Chapter 4 The problem of humbug, Mary Midgley; Chapter 5 Journalism, politics and public relations, Brian McNair; Chapter 6 The myth of Saddam Hussein, Richard Keeble; Chapter 7 Privacy, the public interest and a prurient public, David Archard; Chapter 8 Beyond Calcutt, Ian Cram; Chapter 9 Taming the tabloids, Bob Franklin, Rod Pilling; Chapter 10 Ethical photojournalism in the age of the electronic darkroom, Nigel Warburton; Chapter 11 Is the medium a (moral) message?, Noël Carroll; Chapter 12 Sex and violence in fact and fiction, Gordon Graham; Chapter 13 Censorship and the media, Anthony Ellis;