1st Edition

Media Ethics

Edited By Matthew Kieran Copyright 1998
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    Media Ethics brings together philosophers, academics and media professionals to debate pressing ethical and moral questions for journalists and the media and to examine basic notions such as truth, virtue, privacy, rights, offence, harm and freedom which are used in answering them.

    Chapter 1 Journalism and ethics, Andrew Belsey; Chapter 2 The journalism of attachment, Martin Bell; Chapter 3 Objectivity, impartiality and good journalism, Matthew Kieran; Chapter 4 The problem of humbug, Mary Midgley; Chapter 5 Journalism, politics and public relations, Brian McNair; Chapter 6 The myth of Saddam Hussein, Richard Keeble; Chapter 7 Privacy, the public interest and a prurient public, David Archard; Chapter 8 Beyond Calcutt, Ian Cram; Chapter 9 Taming the tabloids, Bob Franklin, Rod Pilling; Chapter 10 Ethical photojournalism in the age of the electronic darkroom, Nigel Warburton; Chapter 11 Is the medium a (moral) message?, Noël Carroll; Chapter 12 Sex and violence in fact and fiction, Gordon Graham; Chapter 13 Censorship and the media, Anthony Ellis;

    Biography

    Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Media Ethics: A Philosophical Approach and co-author of Regulating for Changing Values, a report for the Broadcasting Standards Commission. He has published articles in media ethics, aesthetics, ethics and social philosophy.