Notes continued

Question 1

five obligations of the press in social responsibility:

1. to provide a ? in ? that gives them ?
2. to serve as a ?
3. to depict ? without utilizing ?
4. to be responsible for the ?
5. to provide full access to?

Answer 1

1. comprehensive, truthful, and intelligent account of the days events/ context/ meaning
2. forum for the exchange of comment and criticism
3. racial, social, and cultural groups accurately/ stereotypes
4. presentation and clarification of the goals and values of society
5. the days intelligence

Question 2

communitarian ethics 
begins with ?
makes news agent of ?
seeks a balance between ?
-between ?
-between ?

Answer 2

community
community
individual freedom and the greater social order
-individual autonomy and social responsibility
-active personhood and sense of community

Question 3

communitarian ethics are based on ?

e. g.?
- equipping readers with what they need to be ?
- moves beyond the limited mission of ? to a broader mission of ?
- moves beyond only describing what is ? to also imagining ?
- moves from seeing people as ? to seeing them as ?

Answer 3

• communities shared values
• civic journalism
• responsible citizens and to become the primary stakeholders in the newspapers news judgment
• telling the news/helping public life go well
• wrong/ what going right would be like
• consumers/ a public

Question 4

crticisms of communitarian

Answer 4

pandering to what readers want instead of what they need

Question 5

potter box model of reasoning 
step one: 
step two
step three 
step four 
step five

Answer 5

1. define the problem and explain what the dilemma is and why is it a dilemma
2. identify values
3. apply various theories
4. determine loyalties
5. based on steps one to four make a decision and justify it