*
Self-righting principle
*
Prior restraint
*
Seditious libel
*
Libel law and the self-righting principle
*
Hobbes and the social contract
*
Locke and the social contract
*
Voltaire as journalist
*
John Peter Zenger
*
Harry Croswell
* Benjamin
Day
*
James Gordon Bennett
*
(short essay) Name three important Colonial American newspapers and explain why
each is important
*
Mindich’s five characteristics of objectivity
*
the inverted pyramid and objectivity
*
World War 1 and objectivity
*
Vietnam War and objectivity
* naïve
empiricism
*
urbanization and the development of the penny press
*
(short essay) The social conditions that gave rise to the penny press
*
(short essay) How did the content of American newspapers change between 1700
and 1850
*
(short essay) Thomas Jefferson’s contradictory views of free speech
*
(short essay) 19th Century newspaper ethics
*
Several causal factors that help explain the American Revolution
*
Cato’s Letters
*
Ben Franklin and the price of truth
*
The watchdog principle
*
Exceptionalism and the American Revolution
* Sensationalism
and the Penny Press
*
Age of the Reporter
*
The murder of Ellen Jowett
*
According to Altschull, the “ideology” of the typical American journalist is
drawn from what four sources?
*
According to Altschull, there are four “general classifications” that describe
the various degrees of freedom that the various founding fathers were debating
when they considers exactly what it meant when they wrote, “Congress shall make
no law … abridging the freedom of the press.”
*
the inherent contradiction in the SPJ code of ethics
*
Trolley problems and “double effect”
*
James Madison and the Federalist Papers
*
Yellow journalism
*
Master Narrative
*
Backfire effect
*
Newspapers as Fourth Estate
*
Isaiah Berlin’s notion of “positive” vs. “negative” liberty/freedom
* (short
essay)Talk about the ethical implications of the following things during
interviewing: manipulating body
language; laughing at jokes; laughing at risqué jokes; using the “some people
say” or the “my editor insisted I ask this” technique as a preface for a
question that you want to ask; using
what you learn during your subject’s exit comments (those exchanges that take
place when you have put up your notebook or tape recorder and are literally
walking out of the interview)
*
Areopagitica
*
True or false. Through the 18th Century, the American colonists were
passionately committed to freedom of speech. Explain your answer
*
Boston Newsletter
*
Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick
*
James Mill and advocacy journalism
*
Citizen Kane and newspaper ethics
* William James and pragmatism
* William James and pragmatism
*
moral confounding
*
Marc Hauser and “Moral Minds”
* (short
essay) Late 19th Century reporters felt they could be both factual
and
colorful.
How did they resolve that apparent contradiction?
*
Hearst and New York Journal
*
Pulitzer and New York World
*
Richard Harding Davis
There
will be an essay question in which I give you an ethical situation and ask you
to run it through the Potter Box. It will count 35 percent of your exam grade.
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I
want you to address all four PB quadrants: facts, values, principles and
loyalties. In the “facts” quadrant, do not waste time re-listing all the
information given but *only* those facts that are central to your ethical
analysis. In the “principles” quadrant, I want you to very briefly comment on
each of the six we considered: Aristotle, Confucius, Kant, Mill, Rawls and
Judeo-Christian, plus your initial gut reaction before concentrating on the one
or two you find most useful. You may, of course, add additional principles we
have not discussed in class.
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