Media Ethics

by Matthew Kieran (Editor)

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:	9781134703531
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/22/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	212
File size:	3 MB

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;

Editorial Reviews

Unfortunately, academics rather than practicing journalists are the likely audience for this philosophical inquiry by Kieran (U. of Leeds, England) into the difficult questions under renewed scrutiny regarding mass media ethics. Pertinent issue coverage encompasses: news and the fourth estate; impartiality as a regulatory ideal; deceit, lies, and privacy; sex and sexuality in the media; violence in the media; harm, offence, and media censorship. While taking into account psychological and sociological perspectives, the author finds in the dialectical approach clues to the basic terms employed in, conclusions drawn from, and implications of, arguments on the boundaries of freedom of expression. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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