Media Ethics And Law Midterm

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Sunshine Laws

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Regulations requiring openness in government.
-make meetings, records, votes, deliberations and other official actions available for public observation, participation and/or inspection.
-also require government meetings to be held with sufficient advance notice and at times and places that are convenient and accessible to the public, with exceptions for emergency meetings.

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Potter Box: Understanding Values: Professional

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Proximity, Firstness, Impact/ magnitude, Recency, Conflict, Human Interest, Entertainment, Novelty, Toughness, Thoroughness, Immediacy, Independence, No prior restraint, Public’s right to know

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Potter Box: Understanding Values: Moral Values

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Truth-telling, Humanness, Justice/fairness, Freedom, Independence, Stewardship, Honesty, Nonviolence, Commitment, Self-control

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Potter Box: Understanding Values: Aesthetic

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Harmonious, Pleasing, Imaginative

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Potter Box: Understanding Values: Logical

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Consistent, Competent, Knowledgeable

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Potter Box: Understanding Values: Socio-cultural

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Thrift, Hard work, Energy, Restraint

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Potter Box: Loyalties

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Concern who the decision-maker has allegiances or loyalties to. For example, in journalism, the first allegiance is always to the public. Other allegiances a journalist might have would be to his or her employer, industry organizations or co-workers. Are we more concerned about being true to our own values or about the effectiveness of the campaign? Is the "greater good" more important than the "golden mean"?

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Potter Box: Principles: Aristotle's Golden Mean.

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Defines moral virtue as a middle state determined practical wisdom that emphasizes moderation and temperance.

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Potter Box: Principles: Confucius' Golden Mean

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More commonly known as the compromise principle and says moral virtue is the appropriate location between two extremes.

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Potter Box: Principles: Kant's Categorical Imperative

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Dictates what we must never do, and those actions that have become universal law.

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Potter Box: Principles: Mill's Principle of Utility

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Dictates that we must seek the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people.

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Potter Box: Principles: Rawls' Veil of Ignorance

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Asks us to assume we don't know which stakeholder position we would find ourselves in, removing our personal interests from the analysis.

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Potter Box: Principles: Agape Principle

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This principle, also known as the Judeo-Christian, 'Persons as Ends' principle, emphasizes love for our fellow humans and the golden rule. He stresses that when we love our neighbors, we shall seek to do good to them, therefore, we should love fellow humans the same way we love ourselves.

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Potter Box: Principles Step

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ethical philosophies or modes of ethical reasoning that may be applicable to the situation. By considering the values stated above from several ethical philosophies, the decision-maker is better equipped to understand the situation. The following are some of the ethical philosophies that may be utilized under this segment of Potter's Box:

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Potter Box

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-an ethical framework used to make decisions by utilizing four categories which identifies as universal to all ethical dilemmas.
-uses four dimensions of moral analysis to help in situations where ethical dilemmas occur: Facts, Values, Principles, and Loyalties as described below.
-consists of a few simple steps, which can be completed in any order

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Ombudsman

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• some media organizations large and small hire people to investigate public complains and tell others about the good and bad of the operations
• the term is Swedish – usually are trusted outsiders who look into the organization that is paying them
• Some newspapers use the term, “readers’ representatives.”
• They often are hired for a set length of time and essentially answer to no one, giving them independence in accounting for that organization
• Fewer than 40 news organizations (ESPN, The Washington Post, the New York Times)
• “Whoever heard of a Fortune 100 company hiring someone to tell the world about its failures on a regular basis?”