Research Paper on Journalist Ethical Dilemma
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Added on 2020-04-07
Research Paper on Journalist Ethical Dilemma
Added on 2020-04-07
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Running Head: JOURNALISTS ETHICAL DILEMMA 1Online journalists face new ethical dilemma-Discussion on role of codes in Australia<Student ID><Student Name><University Name>
JOURNALISTS ETHICAL DILEMMA 2ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3The Significance..............................................................................................................................3Limitations.......................................................................................................................................5Case Study.......................................................................................................................................6Recommendations for the alternatives.............................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
JOURNALISTS ETHICAL DILEMMA 3IntroductionIn this paper the chances of applying the principles that are fundamental relating to one ofthe key religious in the world with respect to the practice of seeking the truth and telling thetruth in the contemporary era is being explored and is questioned whether this ethical frameworkis well matched with the journalism as the fourth estate initiative. According to the researcher,this is however not meant to be a religious exposition since he neither belongs to Buddhism norhe is an expert in the philosophy of Buddhist. It has been stated that none of the topics in theacademic paper has arisen like this in just a vacuum, so here he has explained the context relatedwith both personal and professional which has risen with this issue from over the four decadesand has strengthened it in the recent year (Barnes, 2015). Most of the academic work in thispaper is related to the field of media law where its focus is mainly upon the application of lawsand regulations practically to the work done by the journalists. From period to period theundertakings have been venturing into the ethical and regulatory frameworks of media in whichthe legislative, the philosophical, and self-regulatory framework have informed and related to theinvestigation of the laws that are actually impacting upon the journalists. Professional, ethicalcodes are not considered to be the religious treatises neither they are the holy scriptures that arewritten or spoken as the codes of practice for any kind of specific occupation (Craig, Ketterer &Yousuf, 2017). However, in this paper, neither of them is discussed. Rather, it has been set outon exploring the foundational teachings of journalism ethics that are focusing on the purer lifemight notify the practice of journalism. At some of the stages, it becomes obvious that some ofthe elements of the libertarian model of the journalism might not be compatible with such kind ofprinciples especially if they are being interpreted in the narrowest manner (Deuze & Yeshua,2001). The SignificanceSimultaneously, the scholars those are most prominent have inclined in exploring thesubject with respect to moral theory, social theory and logical theory instead of experimentalobservations often with inherent understandings and also the assumptions that are derived fromthe theory of social responsibility. Some of the researchers (for example, Day 1991; Klaidmanand Beauchamp 1987) have even discussed the responsibilities of journalists in the context of thebroader obligations of journalism in general to the society and in particular to the social
JOURNALISTS ETHICAL DILEMMA 4responsibility theory (Friend & Singer, 2015). While some of the scholars (Hodges 1986; Elliott1986) have outlined the responsibilities of media with regards to the ethical principles which canbe applied to the journalism along with any kind of human interaction in which a choice onmoral can be made.The work carried out by Friend & Singer is of particular significance with respect to therole of codes in Australia in relation to online journalists face a new ethical dilemma (Friend &Singer, 2015). He has extensively written regarding the importance of the individual autonomyand individualism in journalism. During this process, there was a warning against communitariantendencies. While it was argued by him that it is important for the journalists to combineresponsibility and freedom for producing the responsible freedom (García-Avilés & Maciá-Barber, 2014). More recently, he explained the views which were reflecting on the concern thatis considerable regarding the survival of the idea of press freedom. He even argued for a shorttime that slowly but unalterably there is an unfolding of the communitarian worldview. Also, hesaid that the role of code in Australia over the online journalists is in the form of order and thecommunity spirit which can be taken over from the individualism and from social chaos. Bydoing so, they will be losing the importance of institution (Giles et al., 2015).Press freedom will be allowing the journalists in Australia to examine and report any caseaccurately with respect to governments, any big corporations, and the power in their society.Only with the help of press freedom that is genuine, the voters will be able to make informeddecisions near the ballot box every two years. Without which the public will be put in thedarkness where they will not have any idea of what is actually going on and what is done bygovernment in their name. Recently in Australia, it has been noticed that there were many threatsto this code of conduct in restricting the press freedom compelling the way the journalists workand silencing the real news stories from becoming public (Hanusch et al., 2015). It will not be anexaggeration to say that when all these changes are combined the greatest assault is representedby them in Australian on press freedom in peacetime and real journalism in which the publicinterest is being criminalized. Though press freedom is a global issue campaigning about that forthe journalist’s right in going about their business without any harassment, censorship orpersecution is the code of practice of MEAA (Hanusch, 2015).
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