JOurnalistic ethics
Terms
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copy deck
- political function
- watch dog of the government "checks and balances"
- economic function
- tells info on goods or consumers through articles or ad's
- sentry function
- predicts problems of the future our society and culture
- record-keeping function
- scrapbook of all the events of time from weather to sports to news
- entertainment
- human interest storys, features storys, comics, movie and music reviews
- social function
- when journalism causes socialing when ppl interact and sicuss big news
- marketplace
- a place for the public to air opinions and open forum to generate support for the issue (letter to the editor)
- agenda setting
- when reporters find issue and write a series of articles in order to set an angenda of info for us to think about.
- ethics
- determing rights vs. wrong behavior
- composit character
- when you take characteristics of several source and creating one fictional quoted source based on that one person
- credibility
- the ability to be believed and trusted part of the big 3 in ethics
- accuracy
- being 100 percent correct 100 percent of the time *party of the big 3 in ethics*
- objectivity
- the state of mind that journalist acquire to make them fair, neutrail observers of events (no opinion in news story) part of the big 3 in ethics
- good taste
- avoiding sensationalism or explicit material and considering your audeince
- right of reply
- gettin everyone involved in a story a chance for comment in the same story
- fairness to all
- applying the same standard to different races, religion and gender
- plagiarism
- never ever copy anything
- attribution
- identify where the info came from by saying "according to" or using a direct quote
- truth
- if u prove it w/ evidence you can get off
- libel
- false criticsm, written or printed
- slander
- spoken false criticism
- privellage
- you can print anything spoken or written
- fair comment
- opinions and review of a creative piece is safe
- admission of error
- publish a prompt correction that shows its motive was clear
- censorship
- when somebody cuts something from publication b/c they dont agree with it
- tinker vs des moines
- 1969 students won
- in loco parentis
- in place of the parents
- hazelwood vs. hawkins
- 1983
- forum theory
- when a school newspaper was declared freely