Media Ethics is an extremely difficult thing to talk about because everyone has their own opinions. While the mass media can do certain things legally, there is a serious moral question. That is, SHOULD they do certain things? For example, legally, they can post the name of a rape victim but ethically should they? Today in class we talked about a practicing Mormon who was in a beer commercial. The question was posed to the class, should he have been in that beer commercial?
This is a very difficult question to answer. Drinking beer goes against what Mormon's teach, but since he wasn't drinking the beer does that make it okay?
We learned that there are two ways to judge ethical issues. The first is based off of authority, such as following what your parents or what you think God would want. The second is based off of outcomes or consequences.
Ethics is a difficult thing because no one has the correct answers.
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