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Chapter 1: Institutional Pressures

Chapter 1: Institutional Pressures. How can a business influence news? Is news reporting a business or a service? What does the public have a right to know?. The cases in this chapter deal with the ethical dilemmas of internal and external pressures in the business world. Chapter 1 Cases.

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Chapter 1: Institutional Pressures

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  1. Chapter 1: Institutional Pressures • How can a business influence news? • Is news reporting a business or a service? • What does the public have a right to know? The cases in this chapter deal with the ethical dilemmas of internal and external pressures in the business world.

  2. Chapter 1 Cases • Case 1: The New York Times Fires Jayson Blair • Case 2: CNN in Baghdad • Case 3: The Time Warner Colossus • Case 4: NBC and GM’s Pickup • Case 5: The Wichita Experiment

  3. Case 1: The New York Times fires Jayson Blair • Facts– Empirical Definition • Values • Loyalties • Principles

  4. Case 1: The New York Times fires Jayson Blair • What does the Potter Box tell us about Blair, The New York Times, and the scandal? • Was Blair promoted too swiftly? • When should supervisors step in and reprimand a reporter? • Jayson Blair created facts and quotes, thus destroying reputations. Should this blatant disregard for ethical journalism garner a six-figure book deal?

  5. Case 2: CNN in Baghdad • Facts– Empirical Definition • Values • Loyalties • Principles

  6. Case 2: CNN in Baghdad • What should CNN have done with its information about the arrests, tortures and murders in Iraq? • How could CNN have kept reporting if they had been thrown out of the country? • Is not reporting a story the same as lying?

  7. Case 3: The AOL Time Warner Colossus • Facts – Empirical Definition • Values • Principles • Loyalties

  8. The family tree of AOL Time Warner and subsidiary companies Warner Brothers Turner AOL Time Cartoon Network America Online Internet provider Time magazine Austin Powers movie franchise TNT Sports Illustrated CNN Batman movie franchise People Magazine Matrix movie franchise MGM film library HBO/ HBO video

  9. Case 3: The AOL Time Warner Colossus • Covers of magazines owned by Time Warner devoted to projects funded by Time Warner. • Can a parent company give an unbiased opinion of things it has produced? • In what ways are these mergers beneficial? In what ways are they harmful? • When mergers of multibillion dollar companies sour, should the government help financially?

  10. Case 5: The Wichita Experiment • Facts – Empirical Definition • Values • Principles • Loyalties

  11. What are some examples where talking about an unpopular subject has bettered society? • Can a news source give patrons what they want without “dumbing down” the paper? Aristole’s Golden Mean Profit Social responsibility What the reader wants “spinach journalism” Cheap, easy entertainment oblivious to reader • What would the balance of Aristotle's golden mean look like?

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