Desperately Seeking Ethics A Guide to Media

Not just another media ethics book, this engaging and unconventional text breaks away from the usual practice of presenting the ethical theories of well-known philosophers in watered-down form. Instead, the contributors select a poem, movie, song, speech, or other cultural document, analyze it for implied or explicit ethical lessons, and then apply the lessons to a specific case that involved controversial media conduct.

Preface	p. vii
A Teacher's Last Instruction: "Love Each Other or Die"	p. 1
Reporters or Peeping Toms? Journalism Codes of Ethics and News Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal	p. 21
How Close Is Too Close? When Journalists Become Their Sources	p. 45
Socrates in Jail: The Importance of Independence and Responsibility	p. 61
To See Our Flaws as Others See Them: Big Media through 007's Scope	p. 69
"Created Equal" The Press and Hate Speech	p. 87
A Dream Deferred: Hip-Hop Music and the Media Portrayal of American Youth	p. 101
As Good as It Gets: The Media's Disabling Stereotypes	p. 119
Frost Warning: Advertising and "The Road Not Taken"	p. 131
Survivor in the Vast Wasteland: The Ethical Implications of Reality Television	p. 145
Professional Wrestling and Human Dignity: Questioning the Boundaries of Entertainment	p. 161
Natural Born Killers and Media-Born Thrillers: Ethical Contradictions in the Infotainment Age	p. 177
Boldly Seeking Ethics: Journalism's Great Adventure	p. 195
Index	p. 207
About the Contributors	p. 213
About the Editor	p. 217
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Desperately Seeking Ethics A Guide to Media Conduct

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