ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book considers the implications of the disruptions for journalism ethics as a field of study. Ethical claims are not descriptions of moral facts but pragmatic proposals on how to coordinate conduct and resolve disagreements. Imperfectionism is committed to fallibilism and experimentalism. Ethical discourse converses about values, judgments, issues, and the propriety of certain ways of acting. It is a distinct form of conversing. Engagement should be objective in method, adopting the techniques and stance of holistic objectivity. The public participate directly in the discussion of journalism ethics. Public knowledge of journalism ethics will be raised to a higher level by society-wide collaborations. The book calls for a discipline of mind that distinguishes between reason and unreason, between seeking evidence and wishful thinking; between being informed and simply having an opinion and between being open to revision and being dogmatically self-satisfied.
