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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823975503321

Autore

Wilkins Lee

Titolo

The moral media : how journalists reason about ethics / / Lee Wilkins, Renita Coleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

ISBN

1-135-62666-9

1-282-32615-5

9781410612104

9786612326158

1-4106-1210-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (146 p.)

Collana

LEA's communication series

Altri autori (Persone)

ColemanRenita

Disciplina

174/.90704

Soggetti

Journalistic ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-157) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; PART I: UNDERSTANDING JOURNALISTS' RESPONSES TO MORAL QUESTIONS; PART II: THE STRUGGLE TO THINK DEEPLY-PICTURES, DECEPTION, AND PERSUASION; PART III: IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHERS, SCHOLARS, AND PROFESSIONALS; Appendix; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the thinking of other professionals.This text is divided into three parts:*Part I includes chapters that explain the DIT and place it within the larger history of three fields: psychology, philosophy, and mass communication. It also provides both a statist