Preface. 1. The Ethical Challenge 2. Ethical Controversies Today: An Overview 3. Regulating the Mainstream Media: Dawdling in the Last Chance Saloon? 4. At the Root of Relationships: Sourcing Dilemmas 5. The Ethics and Politics of Sleaze Coverage: Privacy, Bugging, Surveillance and Subterfuge 6. Dumbing Down or Dumbing Up? The Tabloidisation Controversy 7. Race/Anti-racism Matters 8. Getting the Representation Right: Tackling issues Over Gender, Mental Health, Suicide, Disability, HIV/AIDS and Gays/Lesbians 9. Battling for News: the Dilemmas of War and Peace Reporting (and Not Just on the Frontlines) 10. Constraints on Journalists – and How to Challenge Them 11. And Finally: Some Useful Websites
Richard Keeble is Professor of Journalism at Lincoln University. He is author of The Newspapers Handbook (4th edition, 2005), editor of Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction (2005) and co-editor of The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007).
According to recent surveys, opinion polls rank journalists below politicians in public trust, and over half of the U.S. population does not believe that news reports are accurate. Keeble (journalism, City Univ., London) ties this crisis of confidence to the complex ethical dilemmas confronting contemporary media workers. In this book, he presents ethical challenges as questions with a wide range of potential responses. Most chapter subsection headings are phrased as questions, such as "Should it be possible for journalists to pay sources?" or "When a government wages war, should journalists automatically give it their support?" Chapters on sourcing problems, sleaze coverage, the tabloidization of the news, racism, the representation of diverse groups, and war reporting are included. Many of the examples used to illustrate the discussion are drawn from British journalism and may be unfamiliar to American readers. Intended for journalism students and professionals, this book is appropriate for academic collections. Judy Solberg, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, DC Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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