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Quagmires and Quandaries

Exploring Journalism Ethics

By: Ian Richards

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Despite best intentions, various codes of ethics and extensive public attention, journalists are repeatedly seen to behave in ways that are less than edifying. With refreshing candour and scholarly rigour, Ian Richards, journalist and academic, examines the reasons why this particular profession is, apparently, so ethically challenged.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Media Studies Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. x
Journalism and ethics	p. 1
An uneasy relationship	p. 4
The rise of journalism ethics	p. 6
Social responsibility theory	p. 8
Journalism ethics in Australia	p. 14
Journalism and truth-telling	p. 17
The influence of post-modernism	p. 18
Journalistic truth	p. 21
The limitations of language	p. 23
Journalism's criteria of rational acceptability	p. 27
Journalism and objectivity	p. 32
The influence of news values	p. 34
Objectivity in practice	p. 37
Redefining objectivity	p. 39
Objectivity as a perspective	p. 43
Codes of ethics, codes of practice	p. 48
Education and accountability	p. 52
Two types of code	p. 54
The MEAA Code of Ethics	p. 58
Implications	p. 66
Corporate pressures and the media organisation	p. 69
Information or advertising?	p. 72
Implications for journalism	p. 73
The need to look elsewhere	p. 75
The business of journalism	p. 83
Pressures in the newsroom	p. 83
Effects on news reporting	p. 86
The situation in Australia	p. 92
Corporate pressures and the individual journalist	p. 95
The impact of technology	p. 99
The effects of the process	p. 104
News customisation	p. 105
Plagiarism	p. 107
In future	p. 108
A journalism for the public?	p. 111
Public journalism and ethics	p. 113
Objectivity and market forces	p. 115
Journalism and privacy	p. 118
A complex notion	p. 120
Justifications for journalistic intrusion into privacy	p. 122
Journalism and autonomy	p. 126
Journalism and respect	p. 130
Intrusion into grief	p. 133
The dilemma	p. 135
Defining influences within journalism	p. 138
The dilemma of news	p. 139
Values in journalism	p. 142
Journalism and consent	p. 143
Future directions	p. 147
Practical implications	p. 149
Organisational levels of influence	p. 149
Individual levels of influence	p. 152
References	p. 158
Index	p. 173
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