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Janet Cooke in Hindsight: Reconsideration of a Paradigmatic Case in Journalism Ethics:
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The authors used a philosophical method called casuistry to see how journalists evaluated the Janet Cooke case fifteen years later and found that they tended to favor scaling back tentative exceptions to the paradigm of journalistic lying that emerged in response to the New Journalism of the 1960s and the Watergate investigation in the 1970s.Abstract:
Discourse produced in 1996 by journalists and journalism educators on the Internet was analyzed using a philosophical method called casuistry to see how they evaluated the Janet Cooke case fifteen years later. This analysis shows that these journalists, in reconsidering the Janet Cooke case, tended to favor scaling back tentative exceptions to the paradigm of journalistic lying that had emerged in response to the New Journalism of the 1960s and the Watergate investigation in the 1970s. This analysis illustrates the gradual refinement of moral concepts in journalism.read more
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Crisis Management By Apology: Corporate Response to Allegations of Wrongdoing
TL;DR: In this article, Borden et al. discuss corporate apologia, social drama, and public ritual, and conclude that corporate apologies, ideology, and ethical Responses to Criticism are related.
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Small lies, big trouble: The unfortunate consequences of résumé padding, from Janet Cooke to George O'Leary
TL;DR: The authors summarizes the two cases and places them in the context of organizational deviance, emphasizing the importance of preparing accurate, unvarnished resumes and the morally bankrupt nature of minor distortions that can later cause huge trouble for the individuals and institutions involved.
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The Promise and Peril of Anecdotes in News Coverage: An Ethical Analysis
TL;DR: The authors assesses the use of anecdotes in news coverage on ethical grounds, pointing both to their promise and to their potential dangers, and suggests how journalists can choose anecdotes more critically and points to an adaptation of the anecdotal form that is ethically supportable.
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Negative Memory Mobilization: Moments of Journalistic Failure as an Interpretive Lens
TL;DR: While ample scholarly attention has focused on how, through commemorative journalism during anniversaries, deaths or retirement, the journalistic community mobilizes past accomplishments to bolster journalistic community as mentioned in this paper.
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The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning
Albert R. Jonsen,Stephen Toulmin +1 more
TL;DR: The history of Casuistry in the Roman world is described in detail in this paper, with a focus on the role of the Canonists and Theologians in the development of the faith.
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Journalists as interpretive communities
TL;DR: This paper argued that the notion of "profession" may not offer the most fruitful way of examining community among American journalists and proposed viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community instead, one united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events.
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The news paradigm and the ideology of objectivity: A socialist at the wall street journal
TL;DR: The authors examines the news paradigm as an occupational ideology whose major feature is the principle of objectivity and the larger hegemonic function of that paradigm, and an anomalous case is analyzed to illustrate paradigmatic repair: A. Kent MacDougall caused a controversy in the journalistic community and threatened the paradigmatic norm ofobjectivity when he revealed that he had been a radical socialist during his ten years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.