Grounding an ethics of journalism
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Mass Media Ethics
- Vol. 3 (1) , 18-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08900528809358305
Abstract
This essay is a revision of “Rudiments of an Ethics of News Reporting,”; which won honorable mention in the 1985 Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii/ AEJMC Prize for Student Papers on Journalism Ethics. It argues that news reporting suffers from a misplaced faith in individual autonomy, a faith that resists a sense of social duty on the basis of negative freedom; therefore, journalism stands in need of a moral theory that recognizes community and personhood as fundamental human characteristics essential to ethical decision‐making.Keywords
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