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1
Discuss the effects of yellow journalism and muckraking on media ethics of that time. Do any of the ethical ideas present in journalism then, still exist today?
2
Explain the practice of blacklisting in the 1950s and how it was eradicated. What ethical issues did this scandal bring up? What, if any journalistic standards still exist today because of those events?
3
Describe the two basic ethical orientations, absolutist and situational, and list aspects of both.
4
Compare and contrast ethics ideas of some of the well known philosophers discussed in the chapter (Kant, Rawls, Aristotle, etc.); which philosophy do you think would best serve journalists today, and why?
5
Discuss some of the controversies in media ethics today. Explain some of the conflicts between ethics in theory and what media practitioners face in the real world.





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