Media Ethics (chapter 8)
Define "open-source journalism"
Forms of innovative publishing of online journalism, rather than the sourcing of news stories by a professional journalist.
Define "eyewash," and how do the examples of compulsive gambling and child abuse illustrate it?
Eyewash - decoration for a story that bears no genuine relationship to it. Young son falling off a horse and breaking his arm turned into child abuse, it was a mere accident.
What is the "Post Toasties test" (or breakfast test?)
- A sensitivity test for media that might be at the breakfast table from newspapers to television and even websites. - "Does this need to be shown at breakfast?"
The grieving family sued a photographer and his newspaper alleging invasion of privacy and emotional distress for his photo showing the deceased in his open casket. Who won in court, and on what grounds?
- Ethical Issue: Family said it intruded on privacy - The person who put the photo on their won, said he didn't invade on privacy. - The plaintiff put the death in the public eye to draw attention, so the judge said they lost the right to privacy.
"Have you got art?" refers to what ethically shaky practice?
Good visuals often get a story better placement in whatever medium they appear in.
Define "mirror" and "window" photography
Mirror: subjective - putting own point of view into the product; reflective of self. Window: see's what in front of the camera more objective - capturing reality.
Newspapers in what type of market were more likely to publish the graphic murder photos.
Newspapers in competitive markets
The violent rally in Charlottesville was an example of what ethical problem when presenting visuals to the public?
Shoot or don't shoot. to go live or not go live Visual were available online before the families of the victims had been notified.
What's the four-point checklist that photographer Garry Bryant goes through in "hundredths of a second"?
Should this moment be made public? Will being photographed send the subjects into further trauma? Am I at the least obtrusive distance possible? Am I acting with compassion and sensitivity?
In the case of the photo of a dead fetus next to a dumpster at a Florida college, what was the editor's rationale to the public for publishing it?
Situation: blood on the floor in the woman's bathroom it was miscarriage. They found a body in the dumpster. The guy ran it because it was a desperate act in an area society where it was not expected Ethical issue: people were complaining that running the paper nullify the lesson that could've been learned and that that photo was released.
What's the "distance test"?
Some newspapers in respect to families are less likely to use death photos from within their own circulation areas. Another Less likely to run violent photos unless they are local
Entries to the World Press photo competition were rejected for being manipulated. On what type of manipulation was the photographer quoted as saying, "It seems the honor system is not working."
Staging, manipulation of photographing.
What's "digital necromancy"?
The use of a deceased celebrity likeness in the use of messages - in purpose of advertising
Of news photos vs. feature photos, which can ethically allow manipulation the most?
feature photos
"While art may be manipulated,
information may not."
