3rd Edition
Controversies in Media Ethics
Part I: The Basics
Overview: Theoretical Foundations for Media Ethics
Chapter 1: Ethics and Freedom: Mass Media Accountability
Chapter 2: Individual Values, Social Pressures and Conflicting Loyalties
Reflections: Taking Aristotle to Work—Practical and Moral Values
Part II: Roles and Pressures
Chapter 3: Gatekeepers and Manipulators: Truth, Fairness and Accuracy
Chapter 4: The Ethics of "Correctness" and "Inclusiveness"
Chapter 5: Codes of Ethics
Tools for Ethical Decision-Making
Part III: Overarching Problems
Chapter 6: New Technologies and Techniques: New Ethics?
Chapter 7: Digitally Manipulated Content
Chapter 8: Media Ethics and the Economic Marketplace
Chapter 9: Access to Media: Equity in Receiving and Disseminating Information
Part IV: Hot Topics in Media Ethics
Chapter 10: Private Lives, Public Interests in a Digital World
Chapter 11: The Ethics of Persuasive Communication
Chapter 12: The Ethics of New Advertising Technologies and Techniques
Chapter 13: Infotainment, Sensationalism and "Reality"
Chapter 14: Violence and Sexuality
Chapter 15: More Topics in the Ethical Debate
Postscript: Some Questions without Answers and Answers without Questions
Glossary
Biography
A. David Gordon retired from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 2002, where he taught mass media ethics and law as well as journalism and media/society courses.
John Michael Kittross is editor of Media Ethics magazine. He retired from Emerson College, where he served as provost and vice president for academic affairs. He is managing director of K\E\G Associates, an academic consulting group.
John C. Merrill is professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Missouri.
William A. Babcock is senior ethics professor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Michael Dorsher teaches mass media ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
