Title: On the Personal Virtue of Journalists and the Social Morality of Media
Abstract: The journalist morality and the medium group morality should be separated. Despite the relation between these two moralities,the difference between them should be recognized. To regulate the group behaviors with individual morality or conversely to regulate the individual behaviors only with group morality,either is likely to result in moral decay. Professional ethics of press should be fully discussed and accepted by practitioners,and it should be also structuralized in the journalist values. The supervision role of press morality should be played through personal conscience and public opinion of society,and the civilized and sound media system should be constructed on the premise of an organic unity of social morality of society and the personal virtue of journalist behaviors. Only such kind of journalistic ethic system can coordinate well with the idea of freedom,democracy and legal institution in modern contract society.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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