The Journalist's Moral Compass - Basic Principles

List of contents

Introduction
Politics: The Press and the State
John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
John Locke, On Civil Government: The Second Treatise, 1691
"Cato" (John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon) Cato's Letters, 1720
Tunis Wortman, A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry and the Liberty of the Press, 1801
Maximilien Robespierre, Liberty of the Press, National Gazette, 1791
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy," Harvard Law Review, Dec. 15, 1890
Philosophy: The Press and the Truth
Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave," The Republic, 386-367 B.C.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922
Warren Breed, "Social Control in the Newsroom," Social Forces, (33:4) May 1955
Suzanne Pingree and Robert Hawkins, "News Definitions and Their Effects on Women," Women and the News, 1978
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, 1964
Sissela Bok, Lying, 1979
Economy: The Press and the Market
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859
James Gordon Bennett, "To The Public--Enlargement of the "Herald"," New York Herald, Jan. 1, 1836: Horace Greeley, "A Great Journalist Dead," New York Tribune, June 3, 1872
Joseph Pulitzer, "The Great Issue," St. Louis Post and Dispatch, Jan. 10, 1879
Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check, 1920
A.J. Liebling, "Prologue: The End of The Free Lunch," The Press, 1961
Ben Bagdikian, "The Lords of the Global Village, The Nation, June 12, 1989
The Commission on Freedom of the Press, (The Hutchins Commission), A Free and Responsible Press, 1947
John Merrill, The Imperative of Freedom, 1974
Conclusion
Appendix: Society of Professional Journalists "Code of Ethics", 1987

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Steven Knowlton, Patrick Parsons

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• Authors: Steven Knowlton, Patrick Parsons, Parsons Patrick
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
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• Released: 30.11.1993
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