tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post5276619343809792979..comments2023-09-25T09:11:03.315-07:00Comments on Journalism Ethics Class: The University of San Francisco, Fall 2017: ....J.Michael Robertsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post-29113790841381025292011-09-07T12:58:56.084-07:002011-09-07T12:58:56.084-07:00Glad you commented on this post. I'll encourag...Glad you commented on this post. I'll encourage my friend to respond.....J.Michael Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15748774253168313345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post-29525631444400812602011-09-07T12:32:48.023-07:002011-09-07T12:32:48.023-07:00"The cause of suffering is clinging to anythi..."The cause of suffering is clinging to anything at all."<br />Journalism, in my eyes, is mainly about clinging onto something: clinging onto tragic events past, clinging onto a major storm that may cause massive devastation, clinging onto the results of the latest football game, etc. Therefore, it would seem, that the act of journalism would beget some form of suffering (Suffering does not necessarily denote massive, unimaginable pain, I believe in this context it refers to any sort of adverse/negative emotion). For example, a journalist does a story on how unhealthy McDonalds food is --> those who work for McDonalds will suffer the consequences of this story. But, on the other hand a large number of people will benefit from this info. In this light, Journalism and Buddhism together would have to go down the middle path: the aim is to inflict as little suffering as possible and be as beneficial to as many people as possible. I believe that the eight-fold path is a more obvious parallel to ethics in Buddhism.Todd Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05204188144915678121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17692225.post-32019909674489641092011-09-07T12:27:45.223-07:002011-09-07T12:27:45.223-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Todd Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05204188144915678121noreply@blogger.com