Week 2 Discussion One, Two and Assignment

Required Resources

Required Text

1. Journalistic Ethics: Moral Responsibility in the Media:

1. Chapter Eight – Objectivity, Perspective, and Bias

2. Afterword – Lessons for Journalistic Ethics

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4. Afterword – Media Influencing Popular Opinion

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6. Afterword – Ideology Implicit in Mass Communications Technology

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8. Appendices One, Two, Three, and Four

Articles

1. Dean, W. (n.d.). The lost meaning of ‘objectivity’ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . Retrieved from http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/bias-objectivity/lost-meaning-objectivity/

2. Martin, V. B. (2008, Sept. 26). Media bias: Going beyond fair and balanced (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . Scientific American. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/media-bias-presidential-election/

3. Society of Professional Journalists. (2014). SPJ code of ethics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . Retrieved from http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

4. Ward, S. J. A. (n.d.). Ethics in a nutshell (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. . University of Wisconsin: Center for Journalism Ethics. Retrieved from https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/

Multimedia

1. Tedx Talks. (2012, April 21). Multisource news and the battle of media bias: Jim Spencer at TEDxMU (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOYasdeum2g