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- catalog abstract ""Being first with a major news story drives the media to inform the public. But what limits, if any, can or should be placed on the media's vital role when their need to attract readers, listeners, or viewers compels them to jeopardize people's freedom (Richard Jewell), privacy (President Clinton and other public figures), and even personal safety (Princess Diana) in their rush to get the scoop, sell newspapers and magazines, and increase viewer numbers?" "To whom are the media responsible - the public, the stockholders, the advertisers? Who decides what may "harm" an audience or what is unsuitable for children? How do political agendas affect censorship and media profits? Are radical new media standards needed in light of increasing numbers of big stories based on bad reporting and lax research?" "These and other questions are probed in this wide-ranging selection of essays that explores the relationships between the media and their diverse audiences, sponsors, corporate owners, governments, and others."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Media and morality".
- catalog contributor b11086728.
- catalog contributor b11086729.
- catalog contributor b11086730.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Being first with a major news story drives the media to inform the public. But what limits, if any, can or should be placed on the media's vital role when their need to attract readers, listeners, or viewers compels them to jeopardize people's freedom (Richard Jewell), privacy (President Clinton and other public figures), and even personal safety (Princess Diana) in their rush to get the scoop, sell newspapers and magazines, and increase viewer numbers?" "To whom are the media responsible - the public, the stockholders, the advertisers? Who decides what may "harm" an audience or what is unsuitable for children? How do political agendas affect censorship and media profits? Are radical new media standards needed in light of increasing numbers of big stories based on bad reporting and lax research?" "These and other questions are probed in this wide-ranging selection of essays that explores the relationships between the media and their diverse audiences, sponsors, corporate owners, governments, and others."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Journalism and ethics : toward solutions. What do we do now / Editors of the Columbia Journalism Review -- The public defender : a journalism professor's crusade to bring the community into the classroom / Scott Sherman -- Public journalism : balancing the scales / Carl Sessions Stepp -- Missing the point / Davis "Buzz" Merritt -- A statement of concern / Committee of Concerned Journalists -- Local TV news project / The Project for Excellence in Journalism -- Should the coverage fit the crime? : a Texas TV station tries to resist the allure of mayhem / Joe Holley.".
- catalog description "pt. I. Journalism and ethics. Journalism and ethics : the terrain. Needed : a more ethical press / John C. Merrill -- Journalists just leave : the ethics of an anomalous profession / James Carey -- Ethics as a vehicle for media quality / Andres Belsey and Ruth Chadwick -- Sleaze journalism? : it's an old story / Adam Goodheart -- Journalism's feeding frenzy. The Jewell case : Going to extremes / Alicia C. Shepard ; Journalists, the FBI, and the Olympics bomb / Lou Hodges et al. -- The Diana case : Journalism after Diana / Lance Morrow ; The Diana aftermath / Jacqueline Sharkey ; Without skipping a beat / Sinéad O'Brien -- The Clinton case : Where we went wrong / Jules Witcover ; After Monica, what next? / Neil Hickey ; Spot news : the press and the dress / Lawrence K. Grossman ; Wag the media / Don Hazen ; Cartoon / by Dick Wright.".
- catalog description "pt. II. Entertainment media and ethics. Entertainment media and ethics : the terrain. Morally offensive content : freedom and responsibility / Louis A. Day -- Stalking the wild viewer / Ien Aug -- The controversy over content. Media mongols at the gates / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Television-- the phantom reality / David Chagall -- The pursuit of sensation / Leo Bogart -- Entertainment media and ethics : toward solutions. Changing the way we think / Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay -- The man who counts the killings / Scott Stossel -- Why the cultural environment movement? / George Gerbner -- Viewer's Declaration of Independence / Cultural Environmental Movement -- Fighting back / David Chagall -- pt. III. Looking to the future. New challenges to the media. The First Amendment and democracy : the challenge of new technology / Adam S. Plotkin -- Do journalism ethics and values apply to new media? / Fred Mann -- Without a rulebook / Dianne Lynch.".
- catalog extent "393 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1573926817 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary issues".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,".
- catalog subject "175 21".
- catalog subject "Mass media Moral and ethical aspects.".
- catalog subject "P94 .M353 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Journalism and ethics : toward solutions. What do we do now / Editors of the Columbia Journalism Review -- The public defender : a journalism professor's crusade to bring the community into the classroom / Scott Sherman -- Public journalism : balancing the scales / Carl Sessions Stepp -- Missing the point / Davis "Buzz" Merritt -- A statement of concern / Committee of Concerned Journalists -- Local TV news project / The Project for Excellence in Journalism -- Should the coverage fit the crime? : a Texas TV station tries to resist the allure of mayhem / Joe Holley.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Journalism and ethics. Journalism and ethics : the terrain. Needed : a more ethical press / John C. Merrill -- Journalists just leave : the ethics of an anomalous profession / James Carey -- Ethics as a vehicle for media quality / Andres Belsey and Ruth Chadwick -- Sleaze journalism? : it's an old story / Adam Goodheart -- Journalism's feeding frenzy. The Jewell case : Going to extremes / Alicia C. Shepard ; Journalists, the FBI, and the Olympics bomb / Lou Hodges et al. -- The Diana case : Journalism after Diana / Lance Morrow ; The Diana aftermath / Jacqueline Sharkey ; Without skipping a beat / Sinéad O'Brien -- The Clinton case : Where we went wrong / Jules Witcover ; After Monica, what next? / Neil Hickey ; Spot news : the press and the dress / Lawrence K. Grossman ; Wag the media / Don Hazen ; Cartoon / by Dick Wright.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. II. Entertainment media and ethics. Entertainment media and ethics : the terrain. Morally offensive content : freedom and responsibility / Louis A. Day -- Stalking the wild viewer / Ien Aug -- The controversy over content. Media mongols at the gates / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Television-- the phantom reality / David Chagall -- The pursuit of sensation / Leo Bogart -- Entertainment media and ethics : toward solutions. Changing the way we think / Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay -- The man who counts the killings / Scott Stossel -- Why the cultural environment movement? / George Gerbner -- Viewer's Declaration of Independence / Cultural Environmental Movement -- Fighting back / David Chagall -- pt. III. Looking to the future. New challenges to the media. The First Amendment and democracy : the challenge of new technology / Adam S. Plotkin -- Do journalism ethics and values apply to new media? / Fred Mann -- Without a rulebook / Dianne Lynch.".
- catalog title "Media and morality".
- catalog title "The media & morality / edited by Robert M. Baird, William E. Loges, Stuart E. Rosenbaum.".
- catalog type "text".