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Media Ethics

Issues and Cases, Tenth Edition

Lee Wilkins; Chad Painter and Philip Patterson

The tenth edition of this authoritative book focuses on the most pressing media ethics issues, including coverage of the 2020 pandemic and election. Enabling students to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment, the book focuses on practical ethical theory for use across the media curriculum.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 408 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-5381-4237-0 • Paperback • July 2021 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-5381-4238-7 • eBook • June 2021 • $85.00 • (£65.00)
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism, Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Courses: Communication; Journalism; Ethics, Communication; Mass Communication; Ethics & Law

Lee Wilkins is Distinguished Curator's Teaching Professor and professor emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

Chad Painter is assistant professor of communication at the University of Dayton.

Philip Patterson is distinguished professor of mass communication at Oklahoma Christian University.

* New to this edition

Foreword

Updated Preface

1. An Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

Essay: Cases and moral systems, Deni Elliott

Case 1-A: How to read a case study, Philip Patterson

Part I: Foundations

2. Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth

*Case 2-A: Rules of engagement: Mary Louise Kelly and the Mike Pompeo interview, Lee Wilkins

*Case 2-B: Don’t Tweet ill of the dead, Chad Painter

*Case 2-C: Dr. Doolittle not: Debunking fake animal stories, Lee Wilkins

Case 2-D: Anonymous or confidential: Unnamed sources in the news, Lee Wilkins

Case 2-E: Death as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker, Tanner Hawkins

Case 2-F: When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting?, Theodore L. Glasser

3.Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village

*Case 3-A: Harry and Meghan: Context and Control, Lee Wilkins

*Case 3-B: Guilty by Google: Unpublishing and crime reporting in the digital age, Deborah L. Dwyer

Case 5-C: Drones and the news, Kathleen Bartzen Culver

Case 5-D: Doxxer, doxxer, give me the news?, Mark Anthony Poepsel

Case 5-E: Looking for Richard Simmons, Lee Wilkins

Case 5-F: Children and framing: The use of children’s images in an anti-same-sex marriage ad, Yang Liu

4.Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances

*Case 4-A: Cuomo interviews Cuomo, Chad Painter

Case 4-B: To watch or to report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster, Lee Wilkins

Case 4-C: Public/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it work?, Madison Hagood

Case 4-D: When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom, Lee Wilkins

Case 4-E: Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and
relationships in a small market,
Ginny Whitehouse

Case 4-F: Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the flow?, Robert D. Wakefield

5.Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise

*Case 5-A: Murder the media: Ethics on January 6, 2021, Lee Wilkins

*Case 5-B: A second draft of history: The New York Times’s 1619 Project, Lee Wilkins

*Case 5-C: When journalists question algorithms and automated systems, Xerxes Minocher and Kathleen Bartzen Culver

*Case 5-D: Watchdog or horndog: Daily Mail, revenge porn, and Katie Hill, Chad Painter

*Case 5-E: Mayor Jim West’s computer, Ginny Whitehouse

Case 5-F: For God and Country: The media and national security, Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle

6.Informing a Just Society

*Case 6-A: The Kansas City Star in black and white: A newspaper apologizes for 140 years of coverage, Lee Wilkins

*Case 6-B: Journalism and activism: When identity becomes political, Rebecca Smith

*Case 6-C: Where’s the line? Covering racial protest on a college campus, Nicole Kraft

Case 6-D: Spotlight: It takes a village to abuse a child, Lee Wilkins

Case 6-E: Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin beat, Chad Painter

Case 6-F: GoldieBlox: Building a future on theft, Scott Burgess

Part II: Applications

7.Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate Mean Consumer Adversary?

*Case 7-A: Fyre Festival becomes Fyre Fraud, Emily Horvath and Chad Painter

*Case 7-B: Through the glass darkly: Peloton, body shaming, and America’s odd relationship with exercise, Lee Wilkins

Case 7-C: Weedvertising, Lee Wilkins

Case 7-D: Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ prescription drug choices, Tara Walker

Case 7-E: Between a (Kid) Rock and a hard place, Molly Shor

Case 7-F: Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the United States and abroad, Philip Patterson

8.Picture This: Technology, visual information, and evolving standards

*Case 8-A: New York Times ends political cartoons, Chad Painter

*Case 8-B: Did you meme that: The unhoppy life of Pepe the Frog, Lee Wilkins

Case 8-C: Remember my fame: Digital necromancy and the immortal celebrity, Samantha Most

Case 8-D: Problem photos and public outcry, Jon Roosenraad

Case 8-E: Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards, Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman

Case 8-F: Horror in Soweto, Sue O’Brien

9.Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line

*Case 9-A: Twitter’s Trump problem, Chad Painter

*Case 9-B: When investigative reporting is bad for business, Chad Painter

*Case 9-C: And the Oscar rejects…Frida Mom, Chad Painter

Case 9-D: Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and “must-runs”, Keena Neal

Case 9-E: Contested interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics, Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennen

Case 9-F: Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters, Chad Painter

10.The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment

*Case 10-A: Documenting culture clash in American Factory,

Emily Callam and Chad Painter

*Case 10-B: The Daily Show’s one-client legal team, Chad Painter

*Case 10-C: #OscarsSoWhite: Representation in the creative process, Lee Wilkins

Case 10-D: Get Out: When the horror is race, Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins

Case 10-E: To die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare 2, Philip Patterson

Case 10-F: The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings, Chad Painter

11.Becoming a Moral Adult

Bibliography

Index

This book is one of the few that examines media ethics from the perspective of various media disciplines including photography, advertising and public relations in addition to news. This reality makes it easier to address the needs and interests of our students enrolled in these various concentrations.


— Marlene S. Neill, APR, Fellow PRSA, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Baylor University


• Coverage of 2020 events such as COVID-19, the presidential election, and social movements (#BLM), as well as the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol.

• Each case has pedagogical questions that expand outward from the specifics of the case itself to ever-larger issues suggested by the case

Chapters in such areas as social justice, media and democracy, loyalty, etc. cross all media and include all media as opposed to segmenting the text by medium.

• An introductory chapter in moral philosophy begins the text and a concluding chapter in moral development concludes it

• Text addresses the implications of digital content throughout multiple media industries and platforms.



FOR STUDENTS
Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
FOR PROFESSORS
Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
Lecture Notes. The Lecture Notes provide the tables and figures from the text.

Media Ethics

Issues and Cases, Tenth Edition

Cover Image
Paperback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • The tenth edition of this authoritative book focuses on the most pressing media ethics issues, including coverage of the 2020 pandemic and election. Enabling students to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment, the book focuses on practical ethical theory for use across the media curriculum.

Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 408 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-1-5381-4237-0 • Paperback • July 2021 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
    978-1-5381-4238-7 • eBook • June 2021 • $85.00 • (£65.00)
    Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism, Social Science / Media Studies, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
    Courses: Communication; Journalism; Ethics, Communication; Mass Communication; Ethics & Law
Author
Author
  • Lee Wilkins is Distinguished Curator's Teaching Professor and professor emeritus in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

    Chad Painter is assistant professor of communication at the University of Dayton.

    Philip Patterson is distinguished professor of mass communication at Oklahoma Christian University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • * New to this edition

    Foreword

    Updated Preface

    1. An Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Essay: Cases and moral systems, Deni Elliott

    Case 1-A: How to read a case study, Philip Patterson

    Part I: Foundations

    2. Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth

    *Case 2-A: Rules of engagement: Mary Louise Kelly and the Mike Pompeo interview, Lee Wilkins

    *Case 2-B: Don’t Tweet ill of the dead, Chad Painter

    *Case 2-C: Dr. Doolittle not: Debunking fake animal stories, Lee Wilkins

    Case 2-D: Anonymous or confidential: Unnamed sources in the news, Lee Wilkins

    Case 2-E: Death as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker, Tanner Hawkins

    Case 2-F: When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting?, Theodore L. Glasser

    3.Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village

    *Case 3-A: Harry and Meghan: Context and Control, Lee Wilkins

    *Case 3-B: Guilty by Google: Unpublishing and crime reporting in the digital age, Deborah L. Dwyer

    Case 5-C: Drones and the news, Kathleen Bartzen Culver

    Case 5-D: Doxxer, doxxer, give me the news?, Mark Anthony Poepsel

    Case 5-E: Looking for Richard Simmons, Lee Wilkins

    Case 5-F: Children and framing: The use of children’s images in an anti-same-sex marriage ad, Yang Liu

    4.Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances

    *Case 4-A: Cuomo interviews Cuomo, Chad Painter

    Case 4-B: To watch or to report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster, Lee Wilkins

    Case 4-C: Public/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it work?, Madison Hagood

    Case 4-D: When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom, Lee Wilkins

    Case 4-E: Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and
    relationships in a small market,
    Ginny Whitehouse

    Case 4-F: Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the flow?, Robert D. Wakefield

    5.Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise

    *Case 5-A: Murder the media: Ethics on January 6, 2021, Lee Wilkins

    *Case 5-B: A second draft of history: The New York Times’s 1619 Project, Lee Wilkins

    *Case 5-C: When journalists question algorithms and automated systems, Xerxes Minocher and Kathleen Bartzen Culver

    *Case 5-D: Watchdog or horndog: Daily Mail, revenge porn, and Katie Hill, Chad Painter

    *Case 5-E: Mayor Jim West’s computer, Ginny Whitehouse

    Case 5-F: For God and Country: The media and national security, Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle

    6.Informing a Just Society

    *Case 6-A: The Kansas City Star in black and white: A newspaper apologizes for 140 years of coverage, Lee Wilkins

    *Case 6-B: Journalism and activism: When identity becomes political, Rebecca Smith

    *Case 6-C: Where’s the line? Covering racial protest on a college campus, Nicole Kraft

    Case 6-D: Spotlight: It takes a village to abuse a child, Lee Wilkins

    Case 6-E: Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin beat, Chad Painter

    Case 6-F: GoldieBlox: Building a future on theft, Scott Burgess

    Part II: Applications

    7.Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate Mean Consumer Adversary?

    *Case 7-A: Fyre Festival becomes Fyre Fraud, Emily Horvath and Chad Painter

    *Case 7-B: Through the glass darkly: Peloton, body shaming, and America’s odd relationship with exercise, Lee Wilkins

    Case 7-C: Weedvertising, Lee Wilkins

    Case 7-D: Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ prescription drug choices, Tara Walker

    Case 7-E: Between a (Kid) Rock and a hard place, Molly Shor

    Case 7-F: Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the United States and abroad, Philip Patterson

    8.Picture This: Technology, visual information, and evolving standards

    *Case 8-A: New York Times ends political cartoons, Chad Painter

    *Case 8-B: Did you meme that: The unhoppy life of Pepe the Frog, Lee Wilkins

    Case 8-C: Remember my fame: Digital necromancy and the immortal celebrity, Samantha Most

    Case 8-D: Problem photos and public outcry, Jon Roosenraad

    Case 8-E: Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards, Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman

    Case 8-F: Horror in Soweto, Sue O’Brien

    9.Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line

    *Case 9-A: Twitter’s Trump problem, Chad Painter

    *Case 9-B: When investigative reporting is bad for business, Chad Painter

    *Case 9-C: And the Oscar rejects…Frida Mom, Chad Painter

    Case 9-D: Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and “must-runs”, Keena Neal

    Case 9-E: Contested interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics, Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennen

    Case 9-F: Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters, Chad Painter

    10.The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment

    *Case 10-A: Documenting culture clash in American Factory,

    Emily Callam and Chad Painter

    *Case 10-B: The Daily Show’s one-client legal team, Chad Painter

    *Case 10-C: #OscarsSoWhite: Representation in the creative process, Lee Wilkins

    Case 10-D: Get Out: When the horror is race, Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins

    Case 10-E: To die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare 2, Philip Patterson

    Case 10-F: The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings, Chad Painter

    11.Becoming a Moral Adult

    Bibliography

    Index

Reviews
Reviews
  • This book is one of the few that examines media ethics from the perspective of various media disciplines including photography, advertising and public relations in addition to news. This reality makes it easier to address the needs and interests of our students enrolled in these various concentrations.


    — Marlene S. Neill, APR, Fellow PRSA, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Baylor University


Features
Features
  • • Coverage of 2020 events such as COVID-19, the presidential election, and social movements (#BLM), as well as the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol.

    • Each case has pedagogical questions that expand outward from the specifics of the case itself to ever-larger issues suggested by the case

    Chapters in such areas as social justice, media and democracy, loyalty, etc. cross all media and include all media as opposed to segmenting the text by medium.

    • An introductory chapter in moral philosophy begins the text and a concluding chapter in moral development concludes it

    • Text addresses the implications of digital content throughout multiple media industries and platforms.



Resources
Resources
  • FOR STUDENTS
    Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
    FOR PROFESSORS
    Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
    Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
    Lecture Notes. The Lecture Notes provide the tables and figures from the text.

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