JMC 408 Final Prep

Ethical Dilemma

two fundamental positions at odds; right vs right

Moral Temptation

personal moral values; right vs wrong

Lettuce Values

values that are influenced by external factors

Core Values

deep beliefs that guide a person’s behavior and decision making

4 Dilemma Paradigms

truth vs loyalty; indivudal vs community; short term vs long term; justice vs mercy

Truth vs Loyalty

truth is forcing someone to answer accurately vs loyalty being a verbal agreement

Individual vs Community

thinking of yourself vs thinking of the sacrifices for the community

Short term vs Long term

immediate change vs change over time

Justice vs Mercy

ratting out a person vs giving them a second chance

Golden Mean

a virtue theory designed to create balance and harmony; in between the two extremes of excess and deficiency

Categorical Imperative

KANT; saying that everyone needs to follow these moral rules (a clear implication of what is right and what is wrong)

Universalizability

a law that applies to everyone regardless of personal morals or exceptions

Utilitarism

MILL; the greatest good for the greatest number of people

OG Utilitarism

focused on individual rights; imblance of actions and morals

NECN

terry glenn vs new england cable news; wanted to report on a sexual assault allegation but wanted to know if additional reporting needed to be done. cable news decided to report it and the victim recounted the story

Le Mandre

journalists wanting to post about religion; understanding the difference between french and us governments

KS banning journalists from public domain

senate bill 452; limiting journalists to a 25 feet barrier for crime scenes

types of privacy

intimate, intrustion, false light, appropriation

food lion vs abc

food lion sueing abc for planting secret cameras and people to record them mislabeling spoiled meat as fresh; sued for lible, fraut, trespass, and breach of loyalty employee

barthinki vs vopper

random person intercepted a phone call and leaked the information to a news station; it was regulated because more speech was evident than was was needed to make it private

copyright

protects people for their original ideas and concepts (not facts)

copyright myths

just using 10%, acknowledging it, seems fair to me, owner will appreciate it, not making money formf it, if it’s on the internet then it’s free, legal, owner wanted it used

works of authorship (covered by copyright)

books, musicals, opera, choreographies, pictorial, graphic, or scultptural, motion pictures, sound recordings, architextural work (sotwares

parts of the fair use doctrine

nature and purpose of fair use, nature of work, amount and sustabilibilty, effort of use

FTC

federal trade commission designed to set guidelines for fair competition and advertising

false advertising

speech that is intended to decieve customers

puffery

subjective terms, objective claims 9redbull gives you wings)

acceptable limits of speech

incitement, threats, defamation, obscenity

near vs minnesota

no remedies for dematation; government officals werer attempting to suress crictism official misconduct, created an outline where publishers can be subjected to censorship

prior restraint

government censorshi; limiting bad information aout the government such as copyright violations, dispatches from combat, false advertising

FOIA

grants the public access to government documents

FOIA exemptions

natioanl security, personal records, trivia records, trade secrets, priveledge communication, law enforcement records, financies, geological information

KORA and KOMA

kanas open records and open meetings acts; allows for public to attend public events

section 230

shields social media platforms from liability (censor or moderating user content)

FCC Regulations

broadcasts = public airways, cable = subscriptions

Equal Times Rule

bona fides in interviews, documentaries, or on-spot coverage

Sport Antitrust Exemption

MLB

“Sunday Ticket”

revolves aorund sherman antitrust act of 1890

Title 9

focuses on gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual harrassment, prognancy, mariatal status

PPA

a federal law privacyh portection act saying that law enforcement needs a subpeona to search stuff

shield law

protects journalists from giving up sources, names, reports, etc.

AI

can’t be copyrighted and isn’t ethical

libel speech must:

be false, be harmful, be published

factors of libel speech:

statement is defamatory, published, person defamed is identifiable, is false

New York Times vs Sullivan

public officials could sue for libel without proving actual malice

burden of proof

prove actual malice