ethical concerns
DESCRIPTION
Ethical Concerns. How to Make Good Decisions. Why Ethics Matter. Truth Strings that come with obtaining the truth Bottom line: Hard work!. Recent Case No. 1. Recent Case No. 2. Recent Case No. 3. One Way to Help. The seven principles of the NSPA Code of Ethics are: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Ethical Concerns
How to Make Good Decisions
![Page 2: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Why Ethics Matter
• Truth• Strings that come with obtaining the truth• Bottom line: Hard work!
![Page 3: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Recent Case No. 1
![Page 4: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Recent Case No. 2
![Page 5: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Recent Case No. 3
![Page 6: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
One Way to Help
The seven principles of the NSPA Code of Ethics are:
Be Responsible. Be Fair. Be Honest. Be Accurate. Be Independent. Minimize Harm. Be Accountable.
![Page 7: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
There’s Also Preventive Analysis
• Who can get hurt and how?• What actions can cause harm? Which are
yours?• What about those actions make you blameworthy?• Are you willing to accept the consequences of
those actions?
![Page 9: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Regardless, beware 5-headed monster
![Page 10: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Concern 1: Deception
• Lying or misrepresenting yourself to obtain information
• Should you pose as a young boy online and invite potential pedophiles to meet you at a local bar (and then videotape the meeting)?
• Do you take someone else’s quotes (from a magazine) and include them without attribution?
![Page 11: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Concern 2: Conflict of Interest• Accepting gifts or favors from
sources or promoting pet social and political causes
• Do you let a source buy you lunch?• Do you take free hot dogs at the
press table?• Do you accept free CDs from
record labels?• Do you interview your friends or
relatives?
![Page 12: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Concern 3: Endangering Life
• Publishing information without regard to it hurting someone or their livelihood
• Do you take that call from the gunman who’s holding hostages?
• Do you expose that organization’s wrongdoings despite the likelihood that someone will lose his/her job?
![Page 13: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Concern 4: Sourcing
• Publishing information that will burn sources• How well can you protect that source?• Which source is more believable?• When should sources be anonymous?• Which source hurts the public?• Are you more enamored with having an
unnamed source than you are with the truth?
![Page 14: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Concern 5: Bias
• Slanting a story by manipulating facts to sway opinions
• How diverse are your sources?• What view dominates among your sources?• Do you use suggestive phrasing? • Does the story frame/theme/approach exclude
other, pertinent views or ideas?
![Page 15: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Seeding Ethical Basics
• Utilitarian• Veil of ignorance• Golden mean• Absolutist• Antinomian• Situational
![Page 16: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Samples of What You Can Do
• Review case studies1. Iraq2. Seattle cops• Ask for views (e.g.,
ethics survey)• Role play (e.g., p. 9,
Ethics in Action)• Policy discussions (e.g.,
pp. 14-27)
![Page 17: Ethical Concerns](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081513/5681642e550346895dd5f6ea/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)