Philosophical Issues in Journalism

Bringing together major writings on a wide range of conceptual issuesunderlying the theory and practice of journalism, this unique anthology coverstopics such as what makes a story newsworthy, journalism and professionalethics, the right of free speech, privacy and news sources, politics and thepower of the press, objectivity and bias, and the education of journalists.Including papers by key contemporary and classical authors such as WalterLippmann, Joshua Halberstam, Tom L. Beauchamp, Fred Smoller, Edward J. Epstein,Herbert Gans, John Stuart Mill, Philip Meyer, and Theodore L. Glasser, this bookintroduces provocative issues in press ethics and philosophy that color ordetermine much of what we see and hear in today's media.