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Originally posted by AXJules
Do all you J students/careerpeople really believe this?? I've taken a couple media ethics courses here at the U. of Missouri-Columbia J school, and I'm not sure I agree. I'd say the people in the newspaper industry are probably the best example of journalistic integrity. Now the cable channel, FOXnews? Ever since they showed up at an airport on 9/11 and told the people waiting at the gate that the plane crashed, I have ZERO respect for them.
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I am a newspaper careerperson (have worked in the business from pretty much from 1987 on) and I would agree that many of us, the everyday grinders who don't win major awards and just seek to inform people about what's going on with the world, have good ethics.
Unfortunately, you're getting a lot of people in the business who don't have any integrity, and IMO, that's a result of tabloidization of news. Tabloidization is a major reason why I don't watch a lot of broadcast media, for instance. I don't even watch FOX News.
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