Ethics for Public Communication

Name: Ethics for Public Communication
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ISBN: 9780195374544

ISBN-10: 0195374541

ISBN-13: 9780195374544

Edition: 2011

Authors: Clifford Christians, John Ferre, Mark Fackler

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This book, intended as a core text for a basic course on Media Ethics, takes a distinctive approach to the study of ethics. Focusing on one historic episode per chapter, the book is divided into three parts that represent the three major functions of the media within democratic societies:news, persuasion, and entertainment. This sets the book apart from many ethics books, which are generally located within the journalistic paradigm. Blending classic and contemporary cases, these three very well known authors discuss media ethics with a thorough grounding in theory, particularly communitarian theory, an antidote to the more widely discussed libertarian theory. Reviewers noted a distinctly…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.210



Preface


Introduction: Communitarian Ethics



News



Edward R. Murrow and Public Information



Al-Jazeera English



Drudgereport.com and Civil Society



Surveillance after September 11



WLBT and Hearing the Public



Advocacy



Supersize Me and Marketing Fat



Rachel Carson's Silent Spring



Stormfront and the Ethics of Hate



Edward Bernays and Public Relations as the Engineering of Consent



United Negro College Fund and the Advertising Council



Entertainment



Deep Throat and the Ethics of Mediated Sex



Russell Means: Oglala Sioux Activist



Norman Lear's Comedic Commentary



Reading the Romance and Popular Art



Art, Rage, Violence, Protest


Epilogue: Three Underlinings


Index