Meaning from the muddle: journalists, ethicists and theologians have much to teach each other

Article Abstract:

Journalists, theologians and ethicists must realize the they struggle with the same issues and can learn much from each other. Four books on journalistic ethics are evaluated. These are 'The Virtuous Journalist' by Stephen Klaidman and Tom L. Beauchamp, 'Doing Ethics in Journalism: Decision-Making in the Newsroom and in the Field' from The Poynter Institute, 'New Values: Ideas for an Information Age' by Jack Fuller and 'Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning' by Cliford G. Christians, Mark Fackler, Kim B. Rotzoll and Kathy Brittain McKee.

Interview, Bibliography

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Journalists and democratic memory

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Historians and journalists have an obligation to redraft history in the interest of promoting democratic culture. It is particularly important for journalists to perform the task of public reminding of wartime incidents and other traumatic human events. Journalists take risks by recalling unsettling moral ambiguities in an nation's past but can contribute to the improvement of foreign or race relations in doing so.

Social aspects, Methods, History, Historical methods

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News of the neglected

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The media will become genuinely democratic in policy and in practice only when it presents viewers and readers with individual concerns and forsakes the condescending perspective for a more inclusive equitable and sensitive representation of events and people. Journalists can ensure this by ensuring coverage for the underprivileged and by giving credit to the neglected.

Analysis, Media coverage, Journalistic objectivity, Objectivity, Socially handicapped, Disadvantaged persons

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