An Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Kentucky State Police utilized a quote from this historical leader
Who is Hitler
During this era they considered truth to be "What is verifiable, replicable, universal"
What is the Enlightenment?
This ensures that information is kept from any public view.
The Potter Box begins with consideration of facts and then moves to this.
What is values?
This consists of alternate facts, stories that ignore evidence, often for political gain, or content that functions as clickbait rather than providing a genuine attempt to inform.
What is Junk News?
a rational process founded on certain agreed-on principles
What is ethics?
This philosophical approach considers truth to be "What is filtered through individual perception"
Who are the Pragmatists?
This is “the intuitive ability to discern what is and is not intrusive and injurious”
What is discretion?
A problem with defining loyalty exclusively as this, is that the multiple loyalties that professionals must maintain produce an inevitable clash.
So today, more than 30 years after the first studies indicated it to be true, this is still the leading source of information for most people in most campaigns—not just about candidates but about policy issues as well.
What is advertisements?
Ethics begins when elements within this system conflict.
What is morals?
The mass press of the early 1900s was deeply and corruptly involved in this
What is Yellow Journalism?
This is a concept in political economics which denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data by corporations.
What is Surveillance Capitalism?
This is the only area in philosophy where the appearance of a problem can be every bit as troubling as the actual existence of the problem.
What is conflict of interest?
Media organizations are expected to act as watchdogs on government. Edmund Burke, in a speech in Britain’s House of Commons during the late 1700s, first called the media this because it performed this role.
What is the fourth estate?
This is step 2 in the Bok Model of ethical decision making.
What is consult experts?
This philosophy asserts that context is literally everything, and that meaning cannot exist apart from context, which is directly opposed to fact-based journalism.
What is Postmodernism?
Philosophically, privacy has two components: control over information about the self and this.
What is control over the context in which that information is understood?
American theologian Josiah Royce, who taught at Harvard in the early 1900s, believed that loyalty could become this.
What is the single guiding ethical principle?
As of 2009 we outline four roles for the media, this role operates when the media provide an alternate vision to the current political and social situation in a country.
What is the radical role?
This philisophical approach states that virtue lies at the mean between two extremes of excess and deficiency
What is Golden Mean?
Under this view, truth is discovered not through any single method of investigation but by determining which set of facts forms a coherent mental picture of events and ideas investigated through a variety of methods.
This is a legal term often associated with open-meeting and open-record statutes.
What is Right to know?
Since Royce wrote more than 100 years ago—years of war, revolution, the emergence of civil rights, human rights, and populism as global social movements—two distinct approaches to loyalty have emerged.
What is do not betray me and be on with me.
Political scientist Bruce A. Williams (2009) has begun this process with a four-part test he believes will help you determine when information has political relevance. The second step in this test considers this concept.
What is sufficiency?