Moral Virtues for Journalists

Quinn, Aaron

doi:10.1080/08900520701315764

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“…Much of the research on media ethics focuses on applied ethics, assessing accountability or responsibility, while a more extensive use of appropriate philosophical theories is less common (Starck 2001), except for Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics (MacIntyre 2008;Klaidman & Beauchamp 1987;Lambeth 1992;Quinn 2007;Borden 2007), which will be discussed later.…”

Section: Journalism Ethics Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work

Ladendorf¹

2013

Nordicom Review

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The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ethical reasoning? Thirteen interviews with freelancers living in a peripheral northern county in Sweden were analyzed, using a combination of discourse analysis and narrative theory methods and a virtue ethics theoretical framework. It was found that 11 out of 13 informants worked occasionally or regularly with information-type assignments. To sustain the informants' professional roles and selfidentities of integrity and impartiality, having boundary settings between, first, information/PR and journalist roles and, second, information and journalist type assignments was crucial. It was evident that individual ethics had replaced professional principles. The freelancers reflexively process media industry constraints, together with their everyday working conditions, in a situation where the ideals and norms of the profession constitute the background for their individual action ethics.

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Section: Journalism Ethics Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work

Ladendorf¹

2013

Nordicom Review

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“…What is stressed in both Polish and common law "definitions", the important issue is not how the defamatory statement makes the person referred to feel, but the impression it is likely to make on those reading it (McBride, Bagshaw, 2008in: Quinn, 2007.…”

Section: Waging Wars With Words -Libel and Slander In The Polish Statmentioning

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“…-think less well as a person of the individual referred to; -think that the person referred to lacked the ability to do their job effectively; -shun or avoid the person referred to; or -treat the person referred to as a figure of fun or an object of ridicule" (McBride, Bagshaw, 2008in: Quinn, 2007. Their definition makes it clear that the important issue is not how the defamatory statement makes the person referred to feel, but the impression it is likely to make on those reading it.…”

Section: Libel and Slander Versus Insult In The Polish Statutory And mentioning

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“…As regards interpretation, not only in theory (which is rather scarce, especially in common law), but also in practice (the court verdicts in cases dealing with libel and slander) the important issue is not how the defamatory statement makes the person referred to feel, but the impression it is likely to make on those reading it (McBride, Bagshaw, 2008in: Quinn, 2007.…”

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Waging Wars with Words – Libel and Slander in the Polish Statutory Law and English Common Law

Strębska

2014

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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Abstract. This paper aims to investigate the differences between the concepts of libel and slander as understood by the Polish statutory and English common law. As it turns out, the above terms are not only divergent with regard to language (varying linguistic contexts) but also with regard to corresponding acts in the real world.Western cultures cherish such values as dignity, honour and self-fulfillment as the underlying rights of a citizen in democratic countries. The above terms are being constantly referred to in international treaties and conventions but the question which should be asked is whether they receive due attention in legal practice.As regards interpretation, not only in theory (which is rather scarce, especially in common law), but also in practice (the court verdicts in cases dealing with libel and slander) the important issue is not how the defamatory statement makes the person referred to feel, but the impression it is likely to make on those reading it (McBride, Bagshaw, 2008in: Quinn, 2007.The subsequent analysis of particular cases in the practical part supports the above claim.Although it is reiterated by the Polish legal academics that civil regulations are not sufficient to guarantee legal protection of dignity, there is an equal or even greater amount of supporters of the broadly conceived "freedom of speech". The discussion might be summarized as involving the proponents of liberal and democratic policies on the one hand, and those who wish to avoid complete decriminalization of libel and slander and deem them necessary components of balance in a democratic state.

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“…The external moral guidance such as institutional norms and principles typified in codes of ethics journalists are supported by an internal view of the virtues of justice and integrity, a "moral psychology for journalists based in virtue" (Quinn, 2007).…”

Section: Journalism As Tacit Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%