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Media Demons
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Introduction
The news media has been consumed by the issue of fraudulent journalism during the past month of May 2003. ... Blair’s misdoings caused the news media to reflect on past offenders, such as Janet Cooke, a writer for the Washington Post, whose fabrication about an eight year old heroin addict won her the Pulitzer Prize. ... Are they the ethics demons the media portrays or are they just two people who succumbed to the pressures of success? ... Being an African American female not much more than a decade after the civil rights movement, and less than a decade after women’s liberation she no doubt found it difficult to get her foot in the door of the news media industry. ... His actions could ultimately not just piss of the news media as well as the public but actually cause considerable damage by promoting misinformation. ... As producers, news outlets need to review their media ethics manuals and realize that the have responsibility to the public to present accurate and objective news.
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Title: Media Demons
Words: 1448 Rating: None Pages: 5.8 submitted by: oobylicious
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