...Media and Its Responsibilities Samantha Shuman Soc120: Introduction to Ethics and Social Responsibility David Strand June 7, 2015 Media and Its Responsibilities Growing up we are told that lying is bad and that telling the truth no matter the consequence is always the right thing to do. As we grow up we learn the difference between a bold faced lie, which always causes more damage than telling the truth, and a little white lie, which usually causes little to no harm. For example lying about stealing money from your dads’ wallet and blaming it on someone else is a bold faced lie and the other person usually faces consequences that they don’t deserve. Telling your three year daughter she looks beautiful when she has mismatched clothes and blue eyeshadow all over her face is a little white lie that is harmful to both parties involved. This is how the media portrays itself to the public whether it is on the internet, newspaper/magazine cover or on television. The whole truth is always told regardless of the outcome; the deontological approach, or half of the truth is told to benefit the greater amount of the public; the utilitarianism approach, just because the media feels that they don’t need to know the harsh reality of what is really going on. The reasoning behind the approach being used would be emotivism, which is basing ones moral decisions on ones feelings or emotions, so basically how that person feels about the given situation. The media is how people normally...
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...May 12, 2014 The Media and its Responsibilities The media should follow certain ethical standards for the information they present to the public. Most people get their information from watching the news, the internet, listening to the radio and other forms of media. The reporters and journalists providing the information through media outlets have a responsibility to provide neutral and honest information to the general population. The media must remain accountable for producing information that can be verified with records. They must also be liable for the consequences of reporting their stories. If the story that is being reported is not done appropriately it could lead to negative consequences. Media outlets need to follow sets of ethical guidelines to ensure that they are providing accurate and valuable stories. The media needs to provide information that is ethically sound so that people are able to receive the news in a non-biased, factual way. This includes opinions on political stances, as well as reports on current events in our communities. If the media reports a story in a way that could sway the viewer, or misrepresent the facts, it could affect how the public reacts to this event. Misrepresenting the facts in a story can lead to pretty severe problems for the people. The people could be angered or panicked from the news they hear, or it could lead to false reports about an innocent person among many other potential negative impacts. A solid way to analyze...
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...the information you received is. Were you at the given events? Did it actually occur? Is it the whole truth or a twisted version of the story? Are their sources reliable? We tend to believe what the authority tells us even though we do not actually have any prove. Obviously I am not saying we should disregard everything the media tells or shows us; however we much consider that there are people with hidden agenda out there. The media tells us what we want to hear but it’s not all true. So to what extent is the media reliable. Over the course of this paper, I will examine two ethical theory and one perspective theory to contrast with the media and the responsibilities. The media are fundamental of social influence and political decisions. Additionally the media has the responsibility to give readers, viewers, and listener accuracy and accountable. Malcom X stated it best when he said, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make innocent guilty and guilty innocent, and that’s power, because they controlled the minds of masses” (Malcom X n.d.). No matter if you are young or old, rich or poor, or what race or gender you are, media can influence a person both positively and negatively. Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that is base off of the consequence of an action. It considered to be morally right to perform an action if the consequences of that specific action cause the majority of people to be happy and satisfied than sad or hurt. (Mosser,...
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...Tuition Credit Request Cover Page Student First Name: _____________________________ Student Last Name: _____________________________ Student ID (ABCDEF1234): ____________________________________ Date: ____________________________ Student Advisor’s Name: ________________________________________________________________________ *Please note this cover page must be submitted with your completed Tuition Credit Request form AND supporting documentation. Requests submitted without this cover page may delay the processing of your request. (In order for Student Records to process this request, the cover page, the form, and the supporting documentation will need to be submitted as one attachment.) Tuition Credit Request Revised 8/5/14 Please contact your Student Advisor for assistance in filling out this form prior to submission. Print, sign, and submit this form via email with official documentation as one attachment to student.forms@ashford.edu or fax to 888.481.7811. Note: Please review the accepted form formats: .PDF, Word (.DOC or .DOCX), Excel (.XLS or .XLSX), TIFF or .TIF, .JPG or .JPEG, Text (.TXT), Bitmap (.BMP), .HTML or .HTM. Submitting a form in any other format may require resubmission or result in a delay in processing. Forms submitted that are not legible will not be processed. If you are experiencing extreme temporary hardship resulting in the need to drop a course, you may request a tuition credit. In order to apply for a tuition credit, you must submit this completed...
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...• Running head: Do information media have social responsibility? If yes, in what ways? If no, why not? Do information media have social responsibility? Larry Komrofski University of Phoenix Hum/176 Media and American Culture Gary Rhodes June 23, 2013 Yes they do, at least that is how I feel. I am still rather confused though. After recently reading that many of your big news companies are owned by certain companies that might quite often have a personal bias or personal agenda, now that is bad enough but I also read that there is no law that states that the news broadcasters have to actually tell the truth. I cannot begin to wrap my head around this. For some foolish reason I just assumed that they would be obligated by law to have to tell us the complete truth, boy do I feel naive. It would be nice to think that a good mother was in charge of all the information media companies, because a good mother would only publish news that was worthy and non-harmful in any way to anyone. It would be nice to think that information media only told us the truth and never added any personal bias, but that is just not the case. In the process of reporting what they report daily, information media has the ability to sway our thoughts and ideas and influence what we buy, where we buy it, who is popular, and why. Next thing you know, what their wearing is what we are wearing. It is unfortunate that this kind of power cannot...
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...Social Responsibility and the Media Chantel Warren HUM/186 2/22/15 Marie Loggia-Kee In this day and age, there are newspapers, magazines, news programs and social media are all forms of information media. We get news in some form from these outlets. We depend on these outlets to deliver the most important and credible information so that we can make informed decisions based on the information proved. That’s part of social responsibility. These media outlet have a social responsibility to their audience. People look to the media for information that is relevant to their everyday lives. For example, daytime television is filled with talk shows about entertainment, health, beauty, food and everyday lifestyles. The audience that watches these shows are made up of mostly stay at home mothers and caregivers. They rely on the fact the information that is shared on these shows is not only helpful but truthful. That ties in to information media’s responsibility to this group of people to make sure they are giving information that will help make decisions based on what they took from their programs. The same can be applied to news outlets during election time. During election season, the role of the information and news media is truly at its highest. The information and news media has a responsibility to their audience to give an unbiased account of events and news as they relate to the political landscape. During election season...
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...today, media has become as necessary as food and clothing. It has played a significant role in strengthening the society. Media is considered as a "mirror" of the modern society, in fact it is the media which shapes our lives. The media has claimed to be governed by righteousness and equity,but greed and self-aggrandizement has poisoned its virtues. Media has responsibilities, and these responsibilities need to be made clear and upheld by society. Unfortunately media today does not abide by moral standards, this sends mixed messages to our society. Most times these messages are daunting, callous and untrue. I will attempt to apply the classical theory of virtue ethics and the contemporary perspective of emotovism to this topic. Virtue ethics is the study of the virtuous character of a person.(Mosser 2010) Emotovism is basing ones moral decisions on ones feelings and emotions. (Mosser 2010) The constitution gives us the freedom of speech, however we must know that exercising these freedoms includes duties and responsibilities. The media has become an integral part of everyday life and has become a leading player and influence of our society. The basic role of the media is to basically and formally update a person on everything that is happening around them by informing them through the various communication channels. The media therefore has moral responsibilities, social responsibilities, and ethical responsibilities, with all working to form a responsible media fraternity...
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...Business Letter Writing The Importance of Letters Commercial correspondence is the correspondence you share with another party during the course of or in continuation of a business transcation. It is a very important part of business, primarily because it is a form of written documentation. It gives statement of objectives. Commercial correspondence is not only important to business; it is a critical aspect of business. Commercial correspondence acts as a reference point for any queries. A business letter is a formal way of communication between two or more parties. Business letter should be terse, clear and to the point. Businessmen are busy people, and have no time to read long, rambling and confused letters. Despite the popularity of faxes and e-mails letters are still a very important method of communication. Letters develop relationship, between friends, colleagues, important business contacts, even strangers. The nature of the relationship is reflected in the tone and style of the letter. Letters represent your company’s public image and your competence. Letters are more personal than a report, yet more formal than memo and email. Letters constitute an official legal record of an agreement. Letters provide a wide range of corporate information. Letters are ambassadors for you and for your organization; you cannot put across your message in person, so your letter acts on your behalf. Ensure that your letters portray you as a appropriable, caring, efficient and professional...
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...Anthropology As It Relates To Racism Jeffery Bridgewater ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Matthew Harms August 20, 2015 The history of anthropology and racism is knotted and complex. Thoughts of human nature and life anthropology need to include replications on anthropology and racism today. The essential to answering the question of what is Anthropology is the real mystery? In this essay we will discover how anthropology and racism are intertwined and affect our lives. Racism today takes the form of financial and political differences, arranged along the collective group of race. These two things are both facts and still very much present. Before saying anything about the human evolution and biology, it would be necessary to understand ideas of the race shape scientific investigation. The human evolution to categorizing hominin species to discussions about Neanderthal and denisovan breeding and potentially entering the race of ideas, configurations of anthropology and racism today. I like to give you a little insight to how we will look into races the black race is a race that has been abused in time past. They tend to be violent especially to themselves. They are group of that have some that think only of themselves or do anything to move up the latter. The things that is so amazing about this group of people is how they will come together when one of there on has been wronged be another race but they turn around and do it to themselves....
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...Mass media has a huge responsibility to the public in the way it influences and shapes people’s ideas. The more the audience interacts with mass media the greater the influence it has on the viewer’s ideals. Living in a socially and technically evolving society means that like Mass Media, what we deem socially acceptable in terms of sexual roles/ identities or even body image has also changed (Silverstein, B. 1986). Mass media acts as an authority that creates a frame work for its audience to perceive reality, using this we can see how manipulation occurs through simple advertising campaigns. The more we interact with media, the more accepting we are of the social reality presented (Gauntlett, D.2008). We want to believe our reality is ‘objective’ when in fact it is ‘subjective’ (McQuail, D. 2010). McQuail argues that our perspective is our reality; Jeffres expands upon this by explaining that mass media acts as an “authority to provide us with an interpretation of reality, explanation, personal opinions and even instructions on how to understand it” (Jeffres, L.W. 2001). Gauntlett believes that on a subconscious level, we seek such an authority to provide us with a framework to perceive reality. Through advertising we see that mass media has the ability to manipulate its audience. Advertising utilises many psychological principals based on research and depending on its target audience, persuades viewers into believing they ‘must’ have the product advertised. A great amount...
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...• Do information media have social responsibility? If yes, in what ways? If no, why not? Yes, I think information media does or at least should have social responsibility. Generally, people rely on these types of media for information about all kinds of things. Politics, crime, natural disasters, and news in general. If an information media source inaccurately reports information, then the public is left with false information that they may perceive as truth. This could lead to issues, such as people being upset and even contacting public figures to change or even prevent things from happening, that are not actual problems. For example, in the Tool Wire lab, one of the people I communicated with mentioned a law she had heard about that would raise taxes on small businesses, effectively, putting her out of business. She stated she had heard about the law online in a podcast. She planned to contact her local representatives to stop this law. Unfortunately, she had not further researched the accuracy of that pod cast and therefore the information could have likely been false. So while she and others, were contacting the representatives, filing petitions etc. Other things could have been happening that the representative should have been addressing! Due to situations like this, I think information media needs to be responsible for what they report and how! If a source is bias, I think it needs to be up front about that. Also, all contributor or reporters need to have credentials...
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...Do the information media have social responsibility? This is a hard one when it comes to social Responsibility. For Journalists they go buy this Lule, J. (2012 )“to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society” (page 995, Para 1). When thinking about that what do we see when it comes to reporting on TV, internet, and the news? Form what I see some of them do, they want us to know what’s really going on with facts. As other will like to put faults accusation out and make the information up so it sounds good. The problem is we buy into this information and most of us can’t get enough of it. So I am going to have to say that I am in the middle on this topic. As we look social responsibility; the act of responsibility to public, and what will benefit society. In are information media we have are news on TV, Internet, and newspaper or magazines. Most of the time they will portray what’s happen in the world around us. Then you have information that can help us to better are self’s. Media is supposed to have responsibility , but some of the program and information my not portray that, we have programs that like to make up story’s so it can mislead us into thinking that what is happen with this person or group of people. I news can have best intentions but most of the time it can be bias. We just need to have an open mind to the information we are getting and not always...
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...The Media and Its Responsibilities Student Name: Institution of affiliation: The Media and Its Responsibilities Introduction Ethics is defined as the study of standards of conduct, moral philosophy or moral judgment. It deals with moral values of human behavior as well as the principles and rules that are applied to govern the behavior. Philosophers, worldwide, have developed various theories meant to explain further the concept of philosophy (Thompson, 1985). These theories include: Utilitarianism, deontology and virtue. They have also come up with other theories that explain the behavior of individuals such as emotivism, relativism, and ethical egoism. In this paper, I will put consideration on one of the above theories in relation to the media and its responsibilities; furthermore I will contrast my response of how to resolve ethical issues with perspective brought by ethical egoism with credible and well argued support of view that is closer to mine. Media is a diversified form of communication intended to reach a large number of the audience through the application of media technologies. There are various technologies available through which the communication is made possible, they include: radio in broadcast media; television and films which transmit information electronically; recorded music; use of newspapers, pamphlets, books and comics to convey information in print media (Thompson, 1985). Other type of media communication include...
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...libertarian theory, 3. the communist theory and 4 the social responsibility theory. Very briefly, here are the main characterstics of each of these theories. Authoritarian: The state, as the highest expression of institutionalized structure, supersedes the individual and makes it possible for the individual to acquire and develop a stable and harmonious life Mass communication, then, supports the state and the government in power so that total society may advance and the state may be viable and attain its objectives. The State (the elite that runs the state) directs the citizenry, which is not considered competent and interested enough to make critical political decisions. One man or an elite group is placed in a leadership role. As the group or person controls society generally it (or he or she) also controls the mass media since they are recognized as vital instruments of social control. The mass media, under authoritarianism, are educators and propagandists by which the power elite exercise social control. Generally the media are privately owned, although the leader or his elite group may own units in the total communication system. A basic: assumption a person engaged in journalism is so engaged as a special privilege granted by the national leadership. He, therefore, owes an obligation to the leadership. This press concept has formed and now forms, the basis for many media systems of the world. The mass media, under authoritarianism, have only as much freedom as the national...
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...Applying Ethical Theories to the Media and its Responsibilities Danielle Carter SOC 120 Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility (ACG1417K) Professor Ravenelle May 11, 2014 Applying Ethical Theories to the Media and its Responsibilities Media is best defined as a means of communication that reaches and could possibly influence people widely through radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and most recently the internet (media, n.d.). Malcom X stated it best when he said, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses” (Malcom X, n.d.). No matter if you are young or old, rich or poor, or what race you are, media can influence a person both positively and negatively. The media has the ability to make a person that no one knew one day to the most talked about person in a country and they are also capable of running a person’s life in the matter of seconds. The main responsibility the media has is to present unbiased, fair, and accurate information to the public. The media typically reports on local weather, local traffic and traffic related accidents, local, nationwide, and sometimes worldwide crime, sports news and scores, government issues and news, entertainment news, and anything that would be of high public interest or controversies. Many ethical theories such as utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics...
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