ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the reader by explaining why need to disrupt and by sketching the argument to come. The ethical problems cannot be properly addressed by minor reformulation of existing precepts. A moral interpretation is a moral ideology. There are political, moral, economic, and religious ideologies. Ideologies are practical. A moral ideology for journalism is a system of aims and norms that guide conduct according to some view of the point of the practice – the practice at its best. Disruption has two related parts, like two sides of a coin: deconstruction and reconstruction. Journalism ethics has switched from normal to revolutionary mode. Journalists in the USA and elsewhere established professional associations. Journalism practice has evolved. Yet the objective model continues to influence how a significant number of newsrooms operate, and the content of codes of ethics. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
