Philosophy 2730F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Applied Ethics, Deontological Ethics, Moveon.Org
13 Nov 2012
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Week 6 what the citizens of a democratic society should be doing about the media, politically and ethically. Souder argued that a system of media ethics could be modeled after adam. Smith"s economic system, informed by his ethical focus on fellow-feeling" as a basis for showing self-restraint. Meyers argued that an amended version of w. d. Ross"s deontological pluralism, one that provided a more detailed account of how to identify actual duties, could serve as a plausible ethical model generally, and for the media in particular. Our two articles today continue our investigation of the principles that should be used to evaluate the media, though in both cases, the discussion is applied to specific examples. In the first article, buckley tries to show we can develop principles that will help us determine how to choose when and whether a particular broadcast media outlet should be granted access to the broadcast media spectrum.
