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"Media decision makers in the West usually confront complex ethical dilemmas from a utilitarian perspective, which means they make decisions based upon "the greatest good for the greatest number." Although the utilitarian approach has many strengths, critics point out that the final arbiter of what is best for the community falls upon the individual communicator, who is not always in a good position to make such a determination. This book, the second edition of Contemporary Media Ethics, continues to follow the Point-of-Decision Pyramid Model introduced in the first edition. But it substitutes communitarianism in most of the analyses with non-utilitarian approaches used around the world, making this one of the most unique mass media ethics books on the market."--Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. The point-of-decision pyramid model for media ethics in the globalized world / Mitchell Land and Koji Fuse
• A semantic patchwork of ethical theory / John C. Merrill
• 3. A genealogy of communitarianism / Clifford G. Christians
• 4. Religious ethics in the world / Mark Fackler
• 5. A pirate walks the plank : a coach's firing hits too close to home for the network that covered it (Communitarianism) / Bill W. Hornaday
• 6. Out on a pair of limbs : Newsweek's leggy Sarah Palin cover sparks cries of sexism (Ethics of care) / James E. Mueller
• 7. Dr. Laura and the "N-word" : the ethics of U.S. talk show culture (Islam) / Haydar Badawi Sadig
• 8. Sex stings, suicide, and scandal in Murphy, Texas : Dateline's To catch a predator (Henry Odera Oruka's "Sage philosophy") / Lynne Edwards, Angela M. Corbo, and April Kontostathis
• 9. Diverse communities and the "educated press" : the ethics of crime coverage of the mentally ill (Ethics of care) / Gary R. Hicks
• 10. My little girl : questionable coverage of an ambiguously sexed athlete (Tetsuro Watsuji's Ethics of trust) / Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita
• 11. Lying for the sake of the truth : the ethics of deceptive journalism (Virtue ethics) / James Edwin Mahon
• 12. The ethics of privacy : questioning media coverage of the Tiger Woods sex scandal (Buddhism) / Sokthan Yeng and Mark Grabowski
• 13. Privileging rights, ignoring victims : Amazon.com defends selling of a pedophile's manifesto (Cosmopolitanism) / Jacqueline J. Lambiase and Sarah Maben
• 14. Finding justice online in a tormented college town : Virginia Tech and the anonymous commentary war (John Rawl's Theory of justice) / Jenn Burleson Mackay
• 15. WikiLeaks and the Afghan war diary : international intrigue, crime, and controversy in cyberspace (Buddhism) / Bradford Owen & Rueyling Chuang
• 16. A "refreshing pervy priest" : a newspaper columnist's attempt at blog post humor outrages readers (Ubuntu) / Nicole Holland Pearce
• 17. Blaming victims : crisis (mis)management of a fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo (The palaver) / Mitchell Land, Koji Fuse, and Jacqueline J. Lambiase
• 18. Commodification of higher education : stealth campaign and public relations (Mohism) / Koji Fuse
• 19. PETA's sexually charged social activism : strategy or stunt? (Dialogic ethics) / Peggy J. Kreshel

• 20. Making toys : Mattel's handling of a recall of lead-tainted toys (Yijing) / Ling-Hui Hsu
• 21. Guerilla polling : pinpointing the moral compass in transnational human rights work (Confucianism) / T. Randahl Morris
• 22. Free speech or racism : the society of professional journalists decides the fate of The Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award (Judaism) / Ginny Whitehouse and Lindsay Huffman
• 23. Corporate social responsibility : what is socially responsible in a disaster's wake? (Ubuntu) / Jennifer M. Keller
• 24. Getting "pwned" : the Sony PlayStation network hack and a public relations nightmare (Four-way test of rotary international) / Sarah Maben and Jacqueline J. Lambiase
• 25. Truth or harmony : the ethics of advice and a CEO's contentious resignation (Confucianism) / Qingjiang Yao and Connie Eigenmann-Malik.

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Contributors:

Land, Mitchell, 1949- , editor, contributor

Fuse, Koji, 1963- , editor, contributor

Hornaday, Bill W., 1966- , editor, contributor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Mass media — Moral and ethical aspects

Mass media

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

487 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

P94 .C584 2014

ISBNs:

098334762X
9780983347620

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013955621

OCLC Numbers:

871320185