JMC 366 ETHICS FINAL TEST PREP Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025
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JMC 366 ETHICS FINAL TEST PREP Question and answers rated A+ 2024/2025 JMC 366 ETHICS FINAL TEST PREP
Sissela Bok: 3 Levels of Ethical Justification - correct answer 1. Conscience (weakest level)
2. Peer consultation (still weak, but not weakest)
3. Test of Publicity (strongest level)
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JMC 366 ETHICS FINAL TEST PREP
Sissela Bok: 3 Levels of Ethical Justification - correct answer ✔1.
Conscience (weakest level)
2. Peer consultation (still weak, but not weakest)
3. Test of Publicity (strongest level)
Define the four areas of invasion of privacy involving the press
Virgil v. Time, Inc. and Diaz v. Oakland Tribune; be prepared to discuss the
False Light case Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Company; be prepared to
discuss Appropriation, but there is no case study example of this area of
privacy. - correct answer ✔*Intrusion* - Journalists physically or
electronically trespassing upon the private solitude of a person during the
newsgathering process.
Case Study: ethical implications of Dietmann v. Time, Inc.
*Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts* - Journalists dissemination
true information that is so personal, so private that it should not be publicized
to a mass audience.
Case Study: Cox Broadcasting v. Cohn
Case Study: Cape Publications, Inc. v Bridges
*False light* - Publicity that creates a false, distorted public image of
someone; publicity that places a person in a false light in the public's eye.
,Case Study: Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Company
*Appropriation* - The news media using someone's name or physical likeness
without permission, in order to make a profit.
Case Study: Zacchini v. Scripps Howard
Dietmann v. Time, Inc. - correct answer ✔*INTRUSION*
The case of Dietemann v Time is a case of invasion of privacy. Life magazine
was doing an investigation for their magazine on supposed "quack doctors"
that were practicing medicine illegally. The investigator would pretend to be a
patient and then go into the alleged doctors office undercover with audio and
camera equipment hidden. This would record evidence that showed the
doctors were in fact not licensed physicians and then they would write about
it.
Dietemann was one of these doctors that practiced medicine in the den of his
home. An undercover patient went into his home and was hooked up with
audio that was being transmitted to a police car outside the home. This foiled
his operation and he was ousted as a fraud.
*Decision:*
He sued Life magazine saying that the hidden electronics were an invasion of
his privacy.
The court did not agree that hidden mechanical devices were "indispensible
tools" of newsgathering here even though the 1st Amendment covers news
gathering. The Court came to the conclusion that "The First Amendment is not
, a license to trespass, to steal or to intrude by electronic means into the
precincts of another's home or office."
*Ruling:*
Dietemann won the case on electronic intrusion and was awarded $1000. His
den was an expected place of solitude.
The Dietemann Decision modified the concept of freedom of press in two
ways.
1) "The First Amendment gives the media no right to break the law with
impunity, even if
legitimate news is being pursued".
2) Reporters are not protected by the First Amendment when they commit
crimes or torts.
Cox Broadcasting v. Cohn - correct answer ✔*PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF
EMBARRASSING PRIVATE FACTS*
*Facts of the case*
Martin Cohn was the father of a seventeen-year old girl who was raped and
killed in Georgia. After obtaining information from the public record, a
television station broadcast the name of Cohn's daughter in connection with
the incident. This violated a Georgia privacy statute which prevented
members of the media from publicizing the names or identities of rape victims.
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