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Expanded Course Description
Media professionals spend a great deal of time talking about "doing the right thing." Why is it then that the consumers of mass media perennially find so much fault with the ethics of the disseminators of news, information, and entertainment? Do the media have a special obligation to ethical behavior that ordinary citizens do not; or do they have a special waiver of the basic moral tenets that the rest of us must accept in order that we might have access to a "free marketplace of ideas?" This course is designed to familiarize students with the tools needed to make moral decisions, and to better understand the ethical dilemmas facing mass media today and how to help solve them. Many questions will be asked, and many answers will be discussed. Ultimately, it will be up to the students to draw their own conclusions about the rightness of the answers they choose to accept. Hopefully, they will come away with a greater appreciation for the complexities of making a moral decision and a greater insight into the workings of the mass media. At the very least, they will be forced to develop a personal yardstick by which to measure their ethical decisions.
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