Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics And The Public Interest

by Jeremy Iggers

Overview

Public dissatisfaction with the news media frequently gives rise to calls for journalists to live up to the ethical standards of their profession. But what if the fault lies in part with the standards themselves? Jeremy Iggers argues that journalism's institutionalized conversation about ethics largely evades the most important issues regarding the

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367316006
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	191
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jeremy Iggers is a staff writer at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Currently the Star Tribune's restaurant critic, he has also written an ethics column and created several public journalism projects for the newspaper. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota and has written extensively on food issues, ethics, and journalism. His last book, Garden of Eating, won the 1996 Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction.

Table of Contents

Introduction — 1 How Journalists Talk About Ethics — 2 Talking in Code(s): The Foundations of Journalism Ethics — 3 Contemporary Ethical Concepts in Historical Context — 4 Journalism Since Cooke: The Corporate Cultural Revolution — 5 Objectivity's Legacy — 6 The Myth of Neutrality and the Ideology of Information — 7 Toward a Pragmatist Ethical Theory for Journalism — 8 Toward a Public Journalism

Editorial Reviews

In the context of the 1981 Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize scandal and from a historical perspective, staff writer Iggers calls for a reexamination of market-driven journalism's ethical standards and contribution in a democratic society. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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