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Journalism in the Digital Age
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Journalism in the Digital Age

by John Herbert
November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
349 pages
9h 18m
English
Routledge
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5 Ethics, law and free speech

If news instinct as born were turned loose in any newspaper office without the control of sound judgement bred by experience and training, the results would be much more pleasing to the lawyers than the editor

Joseph Pulitzer

North American Review, 1904

In an ideal world journalists would work out of motivation and idealism for the truth, and journalism ethics would be about aspirations and goals rather than minimum standards. Such green-light ethics are seen by some as encouraging journalists to view the decision-making process as a moral obligation to create an informed readership with honest, ethical news and information. The difficulty is that ethical journalists first need to be moral journalists; and to ...

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