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Chapter 15-media ethics Flashcards

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The penny press and it’s quest for large audiences leads to excesses such as hoaxes

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1830s

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Theodore Roosevelt denounces muckrakers who “fix their eyes only on that which is file and debasing”

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1906

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Sensational tactics of the yellow price help lead to the Spanish-American war

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1895

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The canons of journalism, the first of the print media codes, calls for fair and accurate reporting

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1923

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National Association of broadcasters (NAB) ethics code, first of the electronic media codes, is established

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1929

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The motion picture production code is adopted, limiting the sex and violence that can be portrayed in movies

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1930

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The television quiz show scandals shock America, leading to network control of programming

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1958

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The success of the Internet creates problems with the “ethics of unlimited information”

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2000’s

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Glenn beck and other media commentators fan the flames of political divisions

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2010

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The NAB’s ethics code is dropped after the government declares it an antitrust violation

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1983

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Janet cook, reporter for the Washington post, is forced to return to the Pulitzer Prize when it is discovered that she made up facts and characters

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1980

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12
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What is ethics?

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The study of guidelines that help people determine right from wrong in their voluntary conduct

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Purposeful deceptions of the public

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Hoaxes

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The practice of keeping a particular type of person from working in media and other industries

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Blacklisting

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Position is from which there is a clear-cut right or wrong response for every ethical decision
- rules are often based on religious ideals & are often rigidly enforced

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Absolutist ethics

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Guidelines that stipulate specific behaviors to be followed

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Prescriptive codes

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Guidelines that stress the things that should not be done

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Proscriptive codes

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Common newspaper rule stating that nothing should be published as fact unless at least two sources confirm it

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Two-source rule

19
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Immanuel Kant’s term for the ethical guidelines to look for principles that will hold true in all situations

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Categorical Imperative

20
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Another name for situation ethics

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Relativistic ethics

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John Rawls’s term associated with the idea that ethical behavior as possible only if everyone is treated equally

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Veil of ignorance

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Principle that ethical choices can be made according to the situation, without a rigid adherence to set rules

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Situation ethics

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Aristotle’s term for describing ethical behavior as a midpoint between extremes

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Golden mean

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Jon Stuart Mill’s idea that actions are ethical only if they result in the greatest good for the most people

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Utilitarian principal (“greatest happiness principle”)

25
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The idea that the end justifies the means

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Machiavellian ethics

26
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Theory that holds that doing what is right for yourself will probably be right for others

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Enlightened self-interest

27
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One camera crew shared by several TV news organizations

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Pool cameras

28
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Chaos that results when crowds of journalists descend on the scene of a news event

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Media circus

29
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Clash that occurs when an outside activity influence’s what a media professional does

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Conflict of interest

30
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Paying news sources for their stories

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Checkbook journalism

31
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Obligation to take responsibility, or account for, the consequences of one’s actions. In media ethics, accountability involves the questions of who controls the media practitioners and who has the power to punish them for ethical lapses.

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Accountability

32
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Departments at television networks that oversee the ethics of their programming

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Standards and practices departments

33
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Staff member whose job it is to oversee media employees ethical behavior

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Ombudsperson

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Independent agencies whose mission is to objectively monitor media performance

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News councils

35
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Associations made up of members of the public to exert influence, such as on the media

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Citizens groups

36
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What is Payola?

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Record promoters payments to DJs to play their songs, both an ethical & legal scandal in the radio & recording industries

37
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Who were two absolutist ethics?

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Immanuel Kant & John Rawls

38
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Who were the 3 situation ethics?

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Aristotle, Machiavelli, & John Stuart Mill

39
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This act stipulated that broadcasters should operate in “the public interest, convenience, & necessity”

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Communications Act of 1934

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