CMN 3105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Predicable, Populares, Islamism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3105
• Professor: Stuart Chambers

Document Summary

Media ethics 4 toronto star: liberal newspaper, bunch of lairs -ford, ottawa citizen garrison ball. Rob ford"s problem becomes public good when he stopped showing up to work due to intoxication. Story was hard to process due to annynomous confessions. defamation claims are guilty til proven innocent. ighting defamation suits is hard. Toronto star looses suit on private gofcourse case. Douglas quan looses lawsuit for story about opp oicer/911 story. St. patrick day rob ford sighted snorting something. To prove the truth the reporter must be able to call on the the witness. Paul ansley, rob ford"s friend, gets sick of fords behaviour and spills the beans to the toronto star. Star starts to track down any drug dealer who have dealt to rob ford. Ethically there is problem with buying video for 100k from crack dealers (who is getting the money).