Philosophy 2730F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Crime, Tehelka, Proactive Law
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Today: review, meyer"s et. al, levy, review. We continue with readings that are concerned to try to identify and justify principles by which to assess the specific practices of the modern mass media in an effort to ensure they are independent, neutral, and critical. Last time, we considered souder"s attempt to show that the essential elements of capitalism can be used, by means of analogy, to identify and structure the essential elements of the mass media in a democratic society. The resultant framework established a set of ethical obligations, that according to. Souder, varied based on the role each individual plays in maintaining the integrity of the system of mass media. This obligation to the system should take priority over short-term self-interest. The motivation for this project follows from the rise of the internet and the subsequent proliferation of content claiming to be journalism" that is not, in any meaningful sense, legitimate journalism.