ABSTRACT

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical philosophies, facilitating ethical awareness. It introduces the Potter Box, with its four dimensions of moral analysis, to provide a framework for exploring the steps in moral reasoning and analyzing the cases. Focusing on a wide spectrum of ethical issues faced by media practitioners, the cases in this Tenth Edition include the most recent issues in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations, and entertainment.

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part |4 pages

PART 1 News

chapter 1|21 pages

Institutional Pressures

chapter 2|17 pages

Truthtelling

chapter 3|23 pages

Reporters and Sources

chapter 4|24 pages

Social Justice

chapter 5|23 pages

Privacy

part |8 pages

PART 2 Persuasion in Advertising

chapter 6|24 pages

The Commercialization of Everyday Life

chapter 8|18 pages

The Media Are Commercial

chapter 9|31 pages

Advertising’s Professional Culture

part |4 pages

PART 3 Persuasion and Public Relations

chapter 10|15 pages

Public Communication

chapter 11|18 pages

Telling the Truth in Organizational Settings

chapter 12|17 pages

Conflicting Loyalties

chapter 13|16 pages

The Demands of Social Responsibility

part |6 pages

PART 4 Entertainment

chapter 14|16 pages

Violence

chapter 15|15 pages

Profits, Wealth, and Public Trust

chapter 16|13 pages

Media Scope and Depth

chapter 17|16 pages

Censorship