Media Ethics: Issues and Cases / Edition 8

by Lee C Wilkins, Philip Patterson

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780073526249
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Philip Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication at Oklahoma Christian University. Lee Wilkins is Professor and Chair of the Wayne State University Communication Department and Distinguished Curator's Teaching Professor and Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Chad Painter is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Clifford G. Christians Preface Acknowledgments 1 An Introduction to Ethical Decision Making Essay Cases and moral systems Deni Elliott Case 1-A How to read a case study Philip Patterson 2 Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth Case 2-A Anonymous or confidential? Unnamed sources in the news Lee Wilkins Case 2-B Death as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker Tanner Hawkins Case 2-C News and the transparency standard Lee Wilkins Case 2-D Can I quote me on that? Chad Painter Case 2-E NPR, The New York Times and working conditions in China Lee Wilkins Case 2-F When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting? Theodore Glasser Case 2-G Is it news yet? Michelle Peltier Case 2-H What’s yours is mine: The ethics of news aggregation Chad Painter 3 Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate mean Consumer Adversary? Case 3-A Weedvertising Lee Wilkins Case 3-B Cleaning up their act: The Chipotle food safety crisis Kayla McLaughlin and Kelly Vibber Case 3-C Keeping Up with the Kardashians prescription drug choices Tara Walker Case 3-D Between a (Kid) Rock and a hard place Molly Shor Case 3-E Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the U.S. and abroad Philip Patterson Case 3-F Sponsorships, sins and PR: What are the boundaries? Lauren Bacon Brengarth Case 3-G A charity drops the ball Philip Patterson 4 Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances Case 4-A Fair or foul? Reporter/Player relationships in the sports beat Lauren A. Waugh Case 4-B To watch or to Report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster Lee Wilkins Case 4-C Public/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it work? Madison Hagood Case 4-D When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom Lee Wilkins Case 4-E Whose Facebook page is it anyway? Amy Simons Case 4-F Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and relationships in a small market Ginny Whitehouse Case 4-G Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the flow? Robert Wakefield Case 4-H How one tweet ruined a life Philip Patterson 5 Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village Case 5-A Drones and the news Kathleen Bartzen Culver Case 5-B Concussion bounty: Is trust ever worth violating? Lee Wilkins Case 5-C Joe Mixon: How do we report on domestic violence in sports? Brett Deever Case 5-D Looking for Richard Simmons Lee Wilkins Case 5-E Children and framing: The use of children’s images in an anti-same-sex marriage ad Yang Liu Case 5-F Mayor Jim West’s computer Ginny Whitehouse Case 5-G Politics and money: What’s private and what’s not Lee Wilkins 6 Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise Case 6-A Reporting on rumors: When should a news organization debunk? Lee Wilkins Case 6-B Doxxer, Doxxer, give me the news? Mark Anthony Poepsel Case 6-C The truth about the facts: Politifact.com Lee Wilkins Case 6-D WikiLeaks Lee Wilkins Case 6-E “Control Room”: Do culture and history matter in reporting the news? Lee Wilkins Case 6-F Victims and the press Robert Logan Case 6-G For God and Country: The media and national security Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle 7 Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line Case 7-A Murdoch’s mess Lee Wilkins Case 7-B Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and “must-runs” Keena Neal Case 7-C Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters Chad Painter Case 7-D Conflicted interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennan Case 7-E Transparency in fundraising: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting standard Lee Wilkins Case 7-F News now, facts later Lee Wilkins Case 7-G Crossing the line? The L.A. Times and the Staples affair Philip Patterson and Meredith Bradford 8 Picture This: The Ethics of Photo and Video Journalism Case 8-A Killing a journalist on-air: A means/ends test Mitchel Allen Case 8-B Remember My Fame: Digital Necromancy and the Immortal Celebrity Samantha Most Case 8-C Problem photos and public outcry Jon Roosenraad Case 8-D Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman Case 8-E Horror in Soweto Sue O’Brien Case 8-F Photographing funerals of fallen soldiers Philip Patterson 9 Informing a Just Society Case 9-A “Spotlight”: It takes a village to abuse a child Lee Wilkins Case 9-B “12th and Clairmount”: A newspaper’s foray into documenting a pivotal summer Lee Wilkins Case 9-C Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin beat Chad Painter Case 9-D Feminist fault lines: Political memoirs and Hillary Clinton Miranda Atkinson Case 9-E GoldieBlox: Building a future on theft Scott Burgess 10 The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment Case 10-A Get Out: When the horror is race Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins Case 10-B To die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare 2 Philip Patterson Case 10-C Daily dose of civic discourse Chad Painter Case 10-D The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings Chad Painter Case 10-E Hate radio: The outer limits of tasteful broadcasting Brian Simmons Case 10-F “Searching for Sugar Man”: Rediscovered art Lee Wilkins 11 Becoming a Moral Adult Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

What I love about Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, Ninth Edition is that it covers ethics the way I teach ethics: as a process. I believe that ethics is asking yourself a set of questions, not parroting a predetermined outcome. When the authors present the cases, they make the students think for themselves, they don't tell them the "right" answer. The questions make great writing prompts for papers, too!

Kim Zarkin