An ethics of vision for journalism
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 6 (3) , 283-294
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038909366753
Abstract
Journalism ethics is preoccupied with the efficiency of conduct and the cultivation of a decision‐making expertise. This essay argues that morality is a form of reality construction requiring a socially negotiated sensibility. Such a view is more harmonious with the essential interpretive task of the craft of journalism. The approach stresses the importance of moral imagination as an aspect of moral reasoning. Ethical action depends on an ethics of vision, a “seeing”; before doing.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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