Media Ethics: Issues and Cases

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Chapter 1: An Introduction to Ethical Decision Making

Chapter 1 Essay: Cases and Moral Systems, Deni Elliott

*Chapter 1 Case

Case 1-A: How to Read a Case Study, Philip Patterson

Chapter 2: Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth

Chapter 2 Cases:

*Case 2-A: What's Yours is Mine: The Ethics of News Aggregation, Chad Painter

*Case 2-B: Is It News Yet?, Michelle Peltier

Case 2-C: Visualizing September 11th, Sara Gettys

Case 2-D: The Spouse is Squeezed: A South Carolina TV Reporter's Attempt To Conceal Her Source, Sonya Forte Duhe

Case 2-E: When Is Objective Reporting Irresponsible Reporting?, Theodore Glasser

Case 2-F, Monitoring The Monitor: Taste, Politics and an Explosive Photo, Gina Bramucci

Chapter 3: Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate Mean Consumer Adversary?

Chapter 3 Cases:

*Case 3-A: Corporate Responsibility: Just Sales or Doing Well by Doing Good?, Christine Lesicko

*Case 3-B: Tailgate Approved? The Rise and Fall of the Fan Can, Erin Schauster

Case 3-C: Taking It For a Spin: Accepting Product Samples in the Newsroom, Philip Patterson

Case 3-D: Was That an Apple Computer I Just Saw? A Comparison of Product Placement in U.S. Network Television and Abroad, Philip Patterson

Case 3-E: Breaking Through the Clutter: Ads That Make You Think Twice, Fritz Cropp IV

Case 3-F: In The Eye of The Beholder: Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty, Brandi Herman-Rose

Case 3-G: Quit, Blow the Whistle or Go With the Flow?, Robert D. Wakefield

*Case 3-H: Getting The Story, Getting Arrested: Photojournalism and Activism, Lee Wilkins

*Case 3-I: The New York Times Sudan "Advertorial": Blood Money or The Marketplace of Ideas?, Heather Holloway

Chapter 4: Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances

Chapter 4 Cases:

*Case 4-A: Twitter Ethics for Journalists: Can You Scoop Yourself?, Charlotte Bellis

Case 4-B: Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Reporting and Relationships in a Small Market, Ginny Whitehouse

Case 4-C: A Question of Role: Is a Documentary Filmmaker a Friend, a Journalist or an Entertainer?, Nancy Mitchell

Case 4-D: Conflicted Interests, Contested Terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics, Bonnie Brennen

Case 4-E: Freebies and the Houston Rodeo, Jim Matheny

Case 4-F: Can You Relate: Cross-Cultural Sensitivity and Reporting, Isabel Ordonez

Chapter 5: Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village

Chapter 5 Cases:

Case 5-A: Funeral Photos of Fallen Soldiers: Public Interest or Public Outrage?, Penny Cockerell

Case 5-B: A Person of Interest, Cara DeMichele

Case 5-C: Blind Justice? On Naming Kobe Bryant's Accuser After the Rape Charge is Dropped, Patrick Lee Plaisance

*Case 5-D: Children Privacy and Framing: The Use of Children's Images in an Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Ad, Yang Liu

Chapter 6: Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise

Chapter 6 Cases:

*Case 6-A: Cable News: 24/7 Political Speech or Something Else?, Su Jing

Case 6-B: Victims and The Press, Robert Logan

Case 6-C: Painful Images of War: Too painful For Whom? When?, Beverly Horvit

Case 6-D: For God and Country: The Media and National Security, Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle

Case 6-E: Mayor Jim West's Computer, Ginny Whitehouse

*Case 6-F: Journalists or Jokesters: The Pimp, The Prostitute and an ACORN That Fell Away From The Tree, Philip Patterson

Chapter 7: Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line

Chapter 7 Cases:

Case 7-A: Crossing The Line? The L.A. Times and the Staples Affair, Meredith Bradford and Philip Patterson

Case 7-B: Profit Versus News: The Case of the L.A. Times and the Tribune Company, Lee Wilkins

Case 7-C: "Bonding" Announcements in the News, Joann Byrd

Case 7-D: Punishing the Messenger: The Tobacco Industry and the Press, Steve Weinberg

*Case 7-E: Is It News Yet?, Michelle Peltier

*Case 7-F: Paying the (Newspaper) Bills, Ivy Ashe

Chapter 8: Picture This: The Ethics of Photo and Video Journalism

Chapter 8 Cases:

Case 8-A: Daniel Pearl and the Boston Phoenix: Too Much of a Bad Thing?, Timothy Ragones

Case 8-B: Problem Photos and Public Outcry, Jon Roosenraad

Case 8-C: Manipulating Photos: Is It Ever Justified?, Lee Wilkins

Case 8-D: "Above the Fold": Balancing Newsworthy Photos with Community Standards, Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman

Case 8-E: Horror in Soweto, Sue O'Brien

Case 8-F: Death in Print: Publication of Hurricane Katrina Photographs, Abigail M. Pheiffer

*Case 8-G: Digital Manipulation as Deceit? A Case Study of a Redbook Magazine Cover, Elizabeth Hendrickson

Chapter 9: New Media: Continuing Questions and New Roles

Chapter 9 Cases:

Case 9-A: Ethics on the Internet: Abiding By the Rules of the Road on the Information Superhighway, Bruce Lewenstein

Case 9-B: What Were You Linking?, Paul Voakes

Case 9-C: The Information Sleazeway: Robust Comment Meets the Data Robots, Fred Vultee

Case 9-D: Death Underneath the Media Radar: The Anuak Genocide in Ethiopia, Doug McGill

*Case 9-E: Ownership of Information in a Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities, Lee Wilkins

*Case 9-F: Sending the Wrong Information About Doing the Right Thing, Naomi Weisbrook

*Case 9-G: Looking for Truth Behind the Wal-Mart Blogs, Philip Patterson

*Case 9-H: Twitter Ethics for Journalists: Can You Scoop Yourself?, Charlotte Bellis

Chapter 10: The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment

Chapter 10 Cases:

*Case 10-A: When Radio Comedy Crosses the Line: Trouble at the BBC, Brian Simmons

*Case 10-B: Hardly Art, Mito Habe-Evans

Case 10-C: "Schindler's List": The Role of Memory, Lee Wilkins

Case 10-D: Naomi Campbell: Do Celebrities Have Privacy?, Lee Wilkins

Case 10-E: Hate Radio: The Outer Limits of Tasteful Broadcasting, Brian Simmons

Case 10-F: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Michael Reidel and Theater Criticism, Brian M. Vandevender

Chapter 11: Becoming a Moral Adult