PHILOS 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Mass Society
10 Nov 2012
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*fox news" tendency to present information to appear a certain way. Loyalty as an ethical principle: the willing and practical and thoroughgoing devotion of a person to a cause , a social act allowing people to form social contracts. We wouldn"t have a meaningful existence without loyalty: can be learned, developed. Can be thought about as an ethical value, though not the sole value: expression in friendship, family, organizations, country. Proves problematic when loyalty is to a negative force gangs etc. Not necessarily a neutral ethical value: problems with how to prioritize competing loyalties. Loyalty and the journalist: loyalties: truth, freedom, open discussion, audience, sources, the bottom line, the profession. Harmonizing of loyalties in community (reader-writer harmony: (ethical) responsibilities linked to professional role. Having a greater responsibility to the truth, to foster political. Conflicting loyalties: involvement: loyalties arising from shared community (humanity) Respect, honesty, truthfulness, fairness and compassion: loyalties arising from professional practice.
