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Chapter 6

Mass Communications and Ethics - Television


Internet Resources

 

Classroom Activities and Lessons

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/codes/codes.htm
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
This web site offers a professional model for other networks with their CAB Code of Ethics, printed and described in detail on this web site. Links to the role of the Council, application of broadcasting act and regulations, broadcaster responsibility on the air, and many other topics of interest are linked and available starting here.

http://www.rtndacanada.com/ethics.htm
Radio and Television News Director’s Association
This web site has codes of ethics and standards across the half-century, as well as a history of the association.

http://www.rtnda.org/rtnda/coe.shtml
Radio and Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
This web site lists the code of ethics adopted by the Board of Directors of the RTNDA.

http://www.cjr.org/year/96/1/60minutes.asp
Columbia Journalism Review
CBS's decision last October to kill its interview with the highest-ranking executive ever to blow the whistle on the tobacco industry produced noteworthy results. This site examines the controversy over the aborted 60 Minutes tobacco segment, which has raised numerous issues and questions on news practices, policies, and ethics.

http://www.policy.com/issuewk/98/0706/index.html
Issue of the Week: Ethics and the media
This site describes current issues in the media and gives the pros and cons regarding the ethics of each.

http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/ethics.html
Journalism Ethics
The web site has interesting current topics on fairness, bias, and judgment, Asia media ethics, notes and readings from course materials, a worksheet for ethical decision making and more. A very useful site for those interested in media ethics.

http://www.centralindiana.com/ethics
How far is too far? A discussion of media ethics
When does a newspaper go too far in reporting the news? At what point does news cease to be news and become sensationalism? Search current articles that discuss these points.

 


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