MCJ 1 Final Set
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- Do unto others
- Judeo-Christian principle for ethical behavior
- Impact of deregulation
- Fewer owners- limit used to be 8 stations in a single market
- Teleological
- To what ethical approach does the utilitarian theory belong
- Deontological Ethics
- Good actions flow from good processes
- utilitarianism
- John Stuart Mill advocated
- Theory of secular command
- Stresses allegiance to a dictator or other political leader from whom the people take cues when making moral decisions.
- Libertarian theory
- Stresses a laissez-faire approaches to ethics: Give free rein to the human ability to think through problems, and people almost always will make morally right decisions
- Theory of divine right of kings
- Allegiance to a divinely anointed monarch
- Pragmatic Ethics
- Judge acts by their results
- Jukebox
- This helped keep interest in recorded music during 1930s, for a nickel a song
- Categorical imperative theory
- Virtue results when people identify and apply universal principles
- The golden mean
- Modern journalistic balance and fairness are founded on this principle
- Categorical Imperative
- Follow principles as if they had universal application
- Crooner
- singer with a near humming style for soft sentimental music
- Aristotle
- Who advocated the golden mean
- The golden mean
- Aristotle: Avoid Extremes and seek moderation.
- Rockability
- a linkage of black and hillbilly music
- social responsibility as goal and result of media activities
- Hutchins Commision advocated
- the US mass media in the 1940s
- Hutchins Commission studied
- Swooner
- Singer of music so rapturous that fans would faint
- Veil of ignorance
- making decisions with a blind eye to extraneous factors that could affect the decision
- Potters Box
- A tool for sorting through the pros and cons of ethics questions
- Junket
- trip with expenses paid by someone who may expect favors in return
- FCC
- Broadcast Regulatory Agency
- The Bronx
- Rap started in this area
- Clear Channel
- Largest US Radio Chain
- Utilitarian ethics
- Good for the greatest number
- Touring
- controlled by concert promotion companies
- Categorical Imperative
- Immanuel Kant advocated the
- Arbitron
- Radio audience measurements
- Principle of utility
- course bestows the most good for the most people.
- Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music
- Major Recording Companies
- Theory of divine command
- proper moral decisions come from obeying the commands of God, with blind trust that the consequences will be good