Ethics in Journalism
Nancy Durham is a freelance video journalist for CBC, cable news, and British
Channel 4, to name a few. Her journalistic objective is to "make viewers care about ordinary
people trapped in wars". While investigating the Balkan area, she met an 18 year old girl named
Rajmonda that was recovering in a hospital from the trauma of seeing her sister, Quendressa,
killed in a Serb attack. She expressed to Durham how she was thinking about joining the KLA.
By the request of the news stations, Durham returns to KLA headquarters to do a set of
follow-ups on Rajmonda. This is how Durham finds that Rajmonda not only lied and was already
a member of the KLA before she met the reporter, but her sister is in fact alive and well. Nancy
Durham's story had been reported in three different countries and more than once. How could
she effectively remain a credible journalist while still holding her vow to help those "trapped in
war"? Should Nancy run(ignore the fact that her story is false) or should she stay and face it?
See Nancy run. Nancy Durham can now be accused of deceiving the public and
fabricating the facts, even if it was mainly Rajmonda's abuse of the publicity she granted to her.
She has a duty as a journalist to "truth in reporting", which defines the lack of accuracy and
research in her depiction of war in the Balkan area. Nancy Durham could completely ignore the
mistakes she made in hopes that it would fall out of the news. But then she would be constantly
worried that interested news stations would appoint another journalist to follow-up on her story,
hence, exposing her inaccuracies. See Nancy fall. Her fleeing of the dilemma, could be the very
thing that signifies her guilt a...
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...in a war ridden land. She also has an obligation to
Rajmonda to illustrate the cause of her exaggeration. Durham should tell the audience how it was
for a good cause...for the good of her people, "her family". This also supports Mill's perspective.
Rajmonda did this for the "greater good" of her people...it doesn't make a difference that she lied.
"The ends justifies the means" Clearly, she did it to bring awareness to the forgetting outside
world. Even if it isn't her story, it is someone else's story. Nancy Durham must write a
follow-up article stating the truth, but bringing recognition to the fact that Rajmonda had no other
choice but to lie. This way not passing the buck onto Rajmonda, a young girl who has obviously
been through a lot. By doing this, Nancy Durham remains employed and Rajmonda sustains the
public's sympathy and support.
and she made sure people knew it. But was this merely a mask to cover a cowardly
What her reasons for it were I don’t know. But she did a good job. She raised twelve children. She led a good life.”
the distain she holds for the accusers only serves to accentuate the differences between her and
...ontradicting herself, and pointing the finger. Although she most likely has experienced these acts of unjust treatment, she seems to put the reader in the position to doubt the credibility of what she has to say time and again.
She planned an kidnapping for lincoln that kidnapping didn't go to plain as she thought.The solder that sentenced her to death by hanging assumed that she had something to do with the death of Lincoln. Granted that she lied about knowing Lewis Paine that was no reason
excused it on the pretense that her views reflected the past times in which she
In “IND AFF, or Out of Love in Sarajevo,” Fay Weldon uses the setting of her story to teach a young woman a lesson in morality, and about life and love. This unnamed young woman narrates the story from the first person point of view, giving the reader a private glimpse into her inner struggle. The young woman is the protagonist in the story, and is a dynamic character; learning and growing in the few pages Weldon gives the reader a chance to get acquainted with her. Setting the story in Sarajevo allows Weldon to use historical events to teach the young woman about life. The largest role that setting plays in “IND AFF” is the historical event, which took place in this small town in Bosnia. An assassin named Princip took the life of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, in Sarajevo. This event is said to have propelled Europe into war, a war that came to be known as World War I. Visiting the town of Sarajevo the young woman ponders Princip’s decision to murder the Archduke and his wife, and these thoughts move her into a different course of action.
knowing that she needed to do something to support her child. After the war, she
reported that she had been abducted from a parking lot and raped by a black male ("A.B. Butler").
Robinson has dealt with a tremendous amount of controversy and abuse for her job, yet
lived in demanded her to give up her conspirator or bear the consequences of the
...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
This goes to show that she is more greedy than her sister and her words are also
In the media, defaming is taken quite seriously, if an individual is caught in the act. There have been a number of cases where a media individual has defamed someone, for example, Kyle Sandilands’s on air rants – one case where he stated that, Magda Szubanski should be in a concentration camp because she is overweight. Defamation can be defined as the act of damaging the good reputation of an individual ei – slander (Law Hand Book, 2015). This essay will outline whether defamation law is an ethical issue as much as it is a legal issue. Firstly outlining what defamation means for the media industry in Australia, Secondly outlining defamation cases in the media, and then lastly concluding the statement.
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