JMC 366 Final Exam Question and answers already passed 2024/2025
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JMC 366 Final Exam Question and answers already passed 2024/2025 JMC 366 Final Exam
The Credibility Gap - correct answer used to describe almost any "gap" between an actual situation and what politicians and government agencies say about it/ the lack of trust that developed on the behalf of th...
JMC 366 Final Exam
The Credibility Gap - correct answer ✔used to describe almost any "gap"
between an actual situation and what politicians and government agencies
say about it/ the lack of trust that developed on the behalf of the public toward
U.S. media institutions following the Vietnam War.
With Rights Come Responsibilities - correct answer ✔has to do with the
rights that are given to the press in the U.S. and how these rights need to be
utilized by the press in a responsible way that fulfills their central duties
James Fallows - correct answer ✔the news media having lost sight of their
central journalistic values- Accuracy, relevancy, objectivity, transparency,
watchdog function. Most important role of a journalist is to make democratic
self-governance possible
The press boycott and its effects (Fallows) - correct answer ✔People aren't
going to the main-stream media for information.
Effects:
1. No way to prepare for trends
2. No sense of what is happening in your community or other communities
3. No tools with which to make decisions about policies and leaders
What it will take for the press to be able to reverse its credibility decline -
correct answer ✔They can correct by recognizing and correcting defects in
their own internal values; practice in the public spirit to make self-governance
possible
The press in the denial stage - correct answer ✔Crying 1st Amendment and
that people can't handle criticism. Fallows argues that other rights are more
, important and that rights come with responsibility.Blame the messenger
syndrome: the press is simply a mirror reflecting realityCompetitors will report
crime, tragedy, and celebrities. So if we don't report it someone else will
What Fallows means by Public Journalism serving as a solution for helping to
lessen the widening of the Credibility Gap - correct answer ✔the press
should learn the issues that are important to news consumers, rather than
relying on themselves to se the agenda.
Sissela Bok - correct answer ✔to ethically justify an action is to seek good
reasons in support of it
the three ethical levels of justification (bok) - correct answer ✔Conscience:
internal sense of right or wrong. Problem: Weakest form of ethical decision
making, self-deception and ignoring of conscience are issues
Peer Consultation: input & Feedback from those in orbit. 2nd strongest form of
ethical decision making. Problem: People will tell you what you want to hear.
Test of Publicity: when a person makes a call for input & feedback from more
than just peers. Strongest form of ethical decision making. Problems:
Investigative journalism not always compatible. Drive to be "first."
what Bok means by a universalizable ethical decision - correct answer
✔Whatever is right or wrong in one situation is right or wrong in all other
similar situations.
the Narrow vs. Broad Vision of Ethical Decision-Making - correct answer
✔We fail to see the broader implications of our actions when concentrating
only on what is immediately before us.
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