READINGS:
- Read Textbook Chapter 1 (institutional pressures on news). PDFs are provided here in case your textbook hasn’t arrived yet.
- Read Textbook Chapter 8 (the media are commercial).
- Scroll to explore the latest news and postings on the website for the advocacy nonprofit Free Press. Also, to see which companies own various media outlets (and how many outlets they own and how many people they reach), go to FreePress.net Ownership Chart then on that page, click on the link for “These Interactive Charts” to bring up an excel spreadsheet with tabs broken down by media industry. It was last updated in 2017, but I can’t find anything more recent.
- Pick ONE of the many reports by the nonprofit Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) to examine their assessments of objectivity and equity across various news programming (notice they have the dates of the reports next to them): https://fair.org/study/
INSTRUCTIONS: Your answers for each of these numbered items should be two paragraphs each. It helps your grade if your answers are specific to the readings so that it demonstrates that you indeed did engage with them and are not just speaking generically or off the cuff.
- Describe several of the examples posed in the textbook chapter institutional pressures on news that you think are particular ethical issues of concern for journalism (be specific to examples from the book). And what feasible solutions do you propose?
- Describe several of the examples posed in the textbook chapter the media are commercial that you think are particular ethical issues of concern for media (be specific to examples from the book). And what feasible solutions do you propose?
- After exploring the Free Press website, and a FAIR study of news media, what specifically surprised or concerned you in terms of being ethical issues for the media (ex: related to injustice/unfairness, harm, and/or a lack of truthfulness)? (include some specific examples from the two websites).
- What topics/issues do you think deserve more attention or reframing in the news and what topics deserve less attention? Justify why this would be beneficial and for whom. (note: This question is not associated with any particular reading, but you can make connections if you’d like).
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