Media Ethics

Chad Painter is associate professor and department chair of communication at the University of Dayton, USA.Erin E. Schauster is associate professor of advertising, public relations, and media design at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.Lee Wilkins is Distinguished Curator's Teaching Professor and professor emerita in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, USA.Philip Patterson is Distinguished Professor of Mass Communication at Oklahoma Christian University, USA.

• (*new to this edition)ForewordPreface1. An Introduction to Ethical Decision-MakingEssay: Cases and moral systems (Deni Elliott)Case 1-A: How to read a case study (Philip Patterson)Introduction to Part I2. Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the?Truth*Case 2-A: “Really crazy”: Fox News hosts didn’t believe their own coverage of election fraud claims (Chad Painter)*Case 2-B: Sports Illustrated avatars: Generative AI and journalistic integrity (Mark Heisten)*Case 2-C: Ethical dilemmas in news coverage: The case of Breonna Taylor (Shreyoshi Ghosh)Case 2-D: Don’t tweet ill of the dead (Chad Painter) Case 2-E: Anonymous or confidential: Unnamed news sources in the news (Lee Wilkins)Case 2-F: When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting? (Theodore L. Glasser)3. Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village*Case 3-A: Sharenting: Privacy concerns of sharing photos and videos of children on social media (Brooke Baker)Case 3-B: Guilty by Google: Unpublishing and crime reporting in the digital age (Deborah L. Dwyer)Case 3-C: Drones and the?news (Kathleen Bartzen Culver)Case 3-D: Doxxer, doxxer, give me the news? (Mark Anthony Poepsel)*Case 3-E: Remember my fame: Digital necromancy and the immortal celebrity (Samantha Most) *Case 3-F: Watchdog or horndog: Daily Mail, revenge porn, and Katie Hill (Chad Painter)4. Loyalty: Choosing between Competing Allegiances*Case 4-A: College media: When students are the watchdog (Chad Painter)*Case 4-B: Natural hair on air (Chad Painter)Case 4-C: To watch or to report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster (Lee Wilkins)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 PromiseCase 5-A: Murder the media: Ethics on January 6, 2021 (Lee Wilkins)Case 5-B: When journalists question algorithms and automated systems (Xerxes Minocher and Kathleen Bartzen Culver)Case 5-C: Mayor Jim West’s computer (Ginny Whitehouse)Case 5-D: For God and country: The media and national security (Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle)*Case 5-E: Rules of engagement: Mary Louise Kelly and the Mike Pompeo interview (Lee Wilkins)*Case 5-F: Harry and Meghan: Context and control (Lee Wilkins)6. Informing a Just Society*Case 6-A: “Bring back manly men”: Right- and left-wing backlash to Harry Styles’s Vogue cover (Alayna Yates)*Case 6-B: Sex sells (but should it?): Female athletes in sports media (Mary Ellen Duvall)*Case 6-C: Should a newspaper be private in public? (Lee Wilkins)Case 6-D: Journalism and activism? When identity becomes political (Rebecca Smith) Case 6-E: Where’s the line? Covering racial protest on a college campus (Nicole Kraft)Case 6-F: A second draft of history: The New York Times’s 1619 Project (Lee Wilkins)Introduction to Part II7. Strategic Communication: The Ethics of Persuasion*Case 7-A: “There’s a code you don’t breach”: The outing of “astroturfing” in Hollywood PR (Philip Patterson)*Case 7-B: Mattel’s pink revolution: How Barbie turned the tables on performative DEI (Kyle Harris)*Case 7-C: Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney: Unthoughtful inclusivity, backlash, and online abuse (Evgeniia Belobrovkina)Case 7-D: Through the glass darkly: Peloton, body shaming, and America’s odd relationship with exercise (Lee Wilkins)Case 7-E: Weedvertising (Lee Wilkins)Case 7-F: Keeping up with the Kardashians’ prescription drug choices (Tara Walker)8. Picture This: Technology, Visual Information, and Evolving Standards*Case 8-A: Misinformation (and) war: Responsible journalism in the digital age (Rania Al Namara)Case 8-B: Taylor Swift and deepfake pornography: Is it ever appropriate to restrict violent speech? (Lee Wilkins)*Case 8-C: New York Times ends political cartoons (Chad Painter)Case 8-F: Did you meme that? The unhoppy life of Pepe the Frog (Lee Wilkins)Case 8-E: Problem photos and public outcry (Jon Roosenraad)*Case 8-F: Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards (Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman)9. Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line*Case 9-A: Reinventing the local newspaper: Can all-digital compete in a changing media environment (Lee Wilkins)*Case 9-B: When Taylor met Travis: The NFL’s Swiftie era (Chad Painter)*Case 9-C: When investigative reporting is bad for business (Chad Painter)Case 9-D: Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcast 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: Pay to play (or at least to win): Loot boxes in video games (Chad Painter)Case 10-B: #OscarsSoWhite: Representation in the creative process (Lee Wilkins) Case 10-C: Get Out: When the horror is race (Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins)Case 10-D: The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings (Chad Painter)Case 10-E: Spotlight: It takes a village to abuse a child (Lee Wilkins)Case 10-F: Fyre Festival becomes Fyre fraud (Emily Horvath and Chad Painter)11. Becoming a Moral AdultReferencesIndex

The best way to engage students in a conversation about media ethics is to provide them with relevant cases that they can relate to. This book provides a great mix of contemporary cases from varied media.