JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Basic Norm
24 Jun 2020
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Journalists and how they view deception in a social context. Deception is an issue that is vague and difficult to talk about. Deception is more of an unpleasant thing holding a complicated moral outlook with humans and their relationships. Truth is the basic norm for people, however, they also have the right to lie depending on the context and moment of the situation. Deceptive messages are ones that purposefully give someone receiving a message a false belief or conclusion made by the person giving the message. Deception happens in at least of all conversations amongst people. Telling the truth is a given in mass communication, especially with journalism. With journalism, there"s a center around publishing and finding the truth. Truth telling is a central responsibility for a journalists because with this profession, there is more of a focus and responsibility to tell the truth.
