ABSTRACT
Serving the minority groups in society is a longstanding goal of the news media. There is general agreement that a more compassionate journalism is needed to accomplish that duty. But journalists and scholars committed to freedom of expression remain concerned that advocacy for any group undermines the news media’s credibility in the long term. The idea of social justice, therefore, revolves around the meaning and definition of “minority interests.” An ethical perspective on “minority interests” is developed in this chapter through five different social groups: displaced people such as refugees and those seeking asylum, the population called “the poor” in different countries, Native Americans on reservations in the United States, and the civilian victims of war.
