Essays on Media Ethics

Ethics plays a very critical role in today’s IT world. Ethics will define how we do, what we should do and how we should treat each other. The framework that assists in the determination of what is wrong or right follows several approaches. The underlining steps in the approaches determine the necessity of evil in the society or a good in the same society. This paper is going to discuss an ethical emerging issue in the IT world, the exact problem that arises due to the issue and the framework for making an ethical decision. It will, also, ...

Is Public Relations an ethical profession?

Introduction Public Relations has been defined in many ways over time and across industries. The Institute of Public Relations in USA defines it as the deliberate, planned and sustained effort that goes into maintaining a mutual understanding between an organization and its public consumer. Edward L. Bernays defined it as the method of information persuasion and a method employed to develop public support for a cause, an activity, a movement or even an organization . Herbert M. Baus proposed yet another definition that Public Relations was a combination of many subjects including philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, journalism, language and communication, ...

1. Topic: Media Ethics in Movies. 2. Title: Crafty Sensationalism: How much should movies invent? 3. Claim: Some movie genres have always been controversial and have faced the ire of realists who questions the sensationalism. Movies such as Ghost in the Shell present a sensationalized version of our world, which leaves its audience with an imaginative world which is far from reality and might never exist. The impact is seen in children, as they do not have the developed mind to understand it is fictional. They fear possibilities of the events happening in the real world. Such level of ...

Socrates is a philosophical model for humanity that stimulates people’s thinking. Socrates lives in Athens more than 2000 years ago (Chaffee, 2005). During his life, he is instrumental to caution people against the tendency to drift in lives current. Socrates arouses, persuades, and reproaches people’s sluggish attitude towards life. Socrates portrays much relevance in the contemporary world with the same reproach he used to in Athens. People have a tendency to behave in a drowsy and sluggish way as they engage in their daily chores (Chaffee, 2005). One must apply Socrates concepts of gadfly to wake from the shuffling in ...

Industry ethical guidelines

Every professional work needs to conform to guidelines of ethics. Media ethics stipulates what needs to be done in the media platform. The power of mass communication is immense in the current world and cannot be overlooked. Media has been associated with professions such as medicine, education, and business (Day, 2006).

As part of professionalism, media ethics combines logic and rationale in its application. Media ethics has made great advancement in ethics of distributive justice, deception and confidentiality. The industry guidelines in the media where ethics come into play can be divided into three: reporting of the news, advertisements ...

Borschel, A. (2012) Sleuthing the truth in the media. Washington: IBJ Book Publishing.

In “Sleuthing the truth in the media”, the author Audrey Borschel questions the truthfulness of media and of the messages that it sends. Borschel argues that in the current world, when the thirst of information is so high and people are dependent on interesting, engaging and sometimes scandalous news, journalists tend to deliver precisely these assets, while transforming the truth into what people want. Nevertheless, this comes with a cost: the cost of the accuracy of the news and the cost of the integrity of the journalists. Various media contents are being analyzed in order for their messages to ...

Introduction

The trial of OJ Simpson is one of the phenomenological trials in history. The case became the most publicized trial in the history of the US, and the longest ever tried in the state of California. There have been a nu8mber of reviews regarding the trial, some of which have involved the role of the media in covering the case, with some arguing that the media overstepped its ethical mandate in so doing. The purpose of this paper, therefore, shall be to analyze the background of events surrounding the case, and the role that the media played in airing the ...

Media Ethics

The integration of the electronic media has affected our daily life globally. Tools applying in the electronic media offer a mechanism to communicate effectively without the limitations of geographical distances. Electronic media enables interactions between different cultures worldwide. Web based forums such as YouTube enable users to interact online and share information. It is crucial to maintaining professional boundaries in the environment of electronic communication. The limitation of an effective framework in this environment is due to lack of clear and defined interaction as well as the rules of engagement. It is possible for people to violate professional Code of ...

Ethics in Mass Media Affecting Communication, Culture, & Critique

Background of the Research Ethics is derived from Greek word ‘Ethos’ which means ‘character’. The term character signifies that how a good person is supposed to be. Or else, what actions he may choose to be a good person. In general, ethics deal with the process of decision making. Whereas separating the good from the bad options that one might have during a course of action. While the term moral comes from Latin origin words ‘mos’ or ‘moris’ that means ‘conduct’ or ‘way of life’. More often, morals are attributed to religious faith, beliefs and personal behavior.

Research Questions/hypotheses Proposed by the Author

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Question 1: Is technology the job killer of the 21st century? Increased intelligent machinery, automation, and a reliance on web-based services has caused a reduction in several types of jobs, but it has also created millions of jobs only not for the people who initially lost them. In this regard, technology cannot be considered as a job killer but rather as the price people have to pay for progress. This is evident in the fact that technological breakthroughs have led to the creation of more affordable goods, better medical care, and improved transport and communication systems which have made lives better ...

Journalism ethics and standards are comprised of the basic principles of good practice which are applicable to the journalistic profession (print, broadcast and online journalism). Journalism ethics and standards are a subset of media ethics which serve as the professional code of conduct (Smith, 2008, pg. 5). Media ethics forms what is commonly referred to as the “canons of journalism.” Journalism promotes justice and is the foundation of democracy. A journalist’s duty is to seek the absolute truth and provide a fair, accurate and a full account of events. Ethics in journalism strives to ensure that the public is served with ...

I. Introduction Journalists have a responsibility to the facts of an event. This is an aspect of journalism that is often lost in the sensationalism that often follows the news in the modern era. Ethics and standards in journalism are principles that give the journalist a structural framework for conducting the practice of reporting on events, people, or places; they are designed to help the journalist navigate specific situations and challenges that journalists often face. Journalists do not exist in a vacuum; they are people with their own opinions and feelings about the things that they are reporting, and it follows ...

How effective is it?

Journalism’s place in the world is crucial to the capacity to bring information to the public eye. Australia’s journalism shield law has become a topic of considerable debate with many arguing over efficacy of the instrument. This study will examine the inception of this law with a focus on the fundamental drivers behind the mechanism. Following this section with an analysis of modern application will illustrate to what extent the shield law has been deemed useful in modern practice. The combination of the first sections will create the capacity to produce a credible assessment as to the overall usefulness of ...

Introduction

“The biases the media has are bigger than conservative or liberal. They are about making money, getting ratings, about doing stories that are easy to cover”. This saying holds a vast amount of truth. Americans and other populations of the world trust and believe on what the media reports on the media outlets as the truth (Allen p. 40). However, researchers have found out that media outlets distort the stories and news they report leading to much attention given to some news than others. Some news stories are not heard in the radios, watched on television or read on newspapers. ...

Introduction

Currently in the United States and across all the nations of the world, allegations of media bias have formed headlines in different forums for discussion. Media bias usually occurs when one party in a news media feels that the media have favored the other party’s viewpoint. However, the media has constantly refuted these claims and allegations pointing out that these conflicting views have to be presented and obviously one side of the argument have to supersede. According to the media, every individual would wish his/her idea to be favored, making it impossible to satisfy both sides at one time. ...

In my view, most media houses practice biasness whenever they broadcast or convey information about foreign countries. The rate at which media houses continue to exercise their press freedom by telling half truths and sometimes lies about other countries is quite alarming. Media houses practice their culture of biasness with a lot of impunity whenever they are giving out information about foreign countries. It is, therefore, important to examine why the media continues to give such biased reports about other foreign countries. There are a number of reasons why the media continues to give impartial news about foreign countries. For ...

Arguably, media today is one of the influential factors in the globe. Together with improvement of technology and Information Communication Technology (ICT), media remains the most powerful in society. It influences are sectors of human life, which include social, political, economic, and religious. The media and its responsibilities remain controversial in the world, in that it has received many critics on how it presents its news and other form of communication. The sector remains the most powerful and influential institution in undertaking its responsibilities, yet it is among the least trusted due to biasness, as well as least accountable ...

Background of the Case

Major players: Myself, job applicants, online job portals. Background: With the advent of the social media and websites pertaining to social networking, several ethical dilemmas have come up. For instance, most employers these days have started checking or looking up the profiles of the prospective employees online. According to Stephen Bonner, Barclays Head of Information Risk Management, “We all know that Human Resources are not supposed to look at the Internet for information about job applicants – but most of them do” (Doyle, 2011). Being an HR (Human Resource) professional in charge of recruiting new employees, I have often ...

1) Topic: “Analyzing the Ethical Dilemma” refers to the dilemma that several people face while dealing with the modern day media. Be it the web service, the mobile, or the telephone, at some point of time every one faces a dilemma. The topic here discusses various aspects of ethical theories as compounded by authors and checking whether the dilemma in concern is actually right in its wont or not. 2) Hypothesis / Analysis Question: “Is it ethical to apply for a new job, while knowing that the present employer will look you up?” 3) Summary: One of the major ...