This diverse and up-to date compilation of classroom-tested cases in media ethics is now available in a new edition. Media Ethics combines real-life and hypothetical cases with a succinct introduction to relevant ethical theory, helping students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions. Ideal as the main text in a media ethics course or as a supplemental text in any course in journalism
We have a philosophical mind so we see Ethics much like one sees "Common Sense." The practice is not universal and is bias in nature until standardized.
After studying media ethics for two doctoral papers, my conclusion is that the only ethic is to "tell the truth." Yet now in a post-modern generation where truth is relative, we have lost any sort of coherency on defining "tell the truth." Thus the mayhem in the media we see today.