Spring 1994: Ethics On Trial

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Major Issues

  • “Surrender of the Gatekeepers” by David Shaw
  • “Tab Rags Face Gags” by Christina Lamb
  • “Who Cares About the Truth” by Michael J. O’Neill
  • “A New Agenda for Journalism” by Katherine Fulton
  • “A Cautionary Tale” by Frank Van Riper
  • “Reinventing Foreign Correspondence” by William Montalbano

Relevant Cases

  • “Bobby Ray Inman” by Lars-Erik Nelson
  • “Tonya Harding Orgy” by John Painter, Jr.
  • “Oregon Papers Tested by Packwood Case” by Patrick A. Yack
  • “Michael Jackson Scandal” Frontline Report
  • “TV Sitting on Stories to Improve Ratings” by Karl Idsvog
  • “TV News With a Conscience” by Danny Schechter
  • “Presuming They Know the Truth” by Judith Herman
  • “‘Iraqgate’—Stretching Beyond the Facts” by Zachary Karabell
  • “Mindfields in Mideast” by Joel Greenberg
  • “Bucking Party Line on Breast Implants” by Elinor J. Brecher
  • “The Faith Healer and the Photographer” by Fredric N. Tulsky
  • “Calling the Shots in a Small Town” by Mike Pride
  • “The Other Side: A Source’s Ethics” by Chuck Alston
  • “Canada Divided on Court Bans” by Joe Hall

Community Relations

  • “Connect With Community or Perish” by Katherine Fanning
  • “The Joys of an Activist Editor” by Tom Winship
  • “Balancing Bad News With Good” by Eileen Shanahan
  • “Black, Proud and Selective” by Betty Baye
  • “LaPrensa Pushes Ethics in Panama” by Roberto Eisenmann
  • “Indians Struggle on in Battle for Fairness” by Tim Giago

Guidelines

  • “Ethical Codes and Beyond” by Cleve Mathews
  • “Guidelines for Ethnic Conflicts” by Bruce J. Allyn and Steven Wilkinson
  • “Can Militant Minority Reporters Be Objective?” by Cynthia Tucker
  • “Errors Press Ignores” by Gilbert Cranberg and Betty Lin
  • “The Ombudsman as Ethicist” by Gordon McKibben
  • “Voice of the Privileged” by Joseph Seldner
  • “Editors as Lobbyists” by David DuBuisson

Spring Reading

  • “Herblock” by Herbert Block
  • “The Cost of Talent” by Derek Bok
  • “Out of Order” by Thomas E. Patterson
  • “A Sacred Trust” by Robert N. Pierce
  • “Behind The Times” by Edwin Diamond
  • “Live From the Battlefield” by Peter Arnett
  • “It Ain’t as Easy as It Looks” by Porter Bibb
  • “Fire With Fire” by Naomi Wolf
  • “Pictures at an Execution” by Wendy Lesser
  • “Death Beat” by Maria Jimena Duzan