JOUR 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Suicide Of Amanda Todd, Jenna Bush Hager, Sexual Orientation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1002
• Professor: Allan Thompson

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Jour 1002: journalism ethics (lecture 6)2016-09-17 9:42 pm: ethics, from the greek- ethos, your personal moral code, a. k. a. Who are you: your personal code, in journalism as in life, many dimensions, ethical considerations at every turn in journalism, nuts and bolts of the job and broader questions. Greek: aesthetics was the study of beauty, epistemology was the study of knowledge, ethics was the study of what is good, both for the individual and society. Ethical choices: not just what is right or wrong, nor what is legal or illegal, about distinguishing among choices, all choices may be morally justifiable, but some more so than others. The golden rule: biblical origins, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, imagine yourself in the place of the person you"re reporting on. Aristotle: the golden mean approach, base ethical decisions on the moral midpoint or mean between two extremes.