RT Book
T1 Murder in our midst: comparing crime coverage ethics in an age of globalized news
A1 Fullerton, Romayne Smith 1964-
A2 Patterson, Margaret Jones
LA English
PP New York
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1702003264
AB "Crime stories attract audiences and social buzz, but they also serve as prisms for perceived threats. As immigration, technological change, and globalization reshape our world, anxiety spreads. Because journalism plays a role in how the public adjusts to moral and material upheaval, this unease raises the ethical stakes. Reporters can spread panic or encourage reconciliation by how they tell these stories. Murder in our Midst uses crime coverage in select North American and Western European countries as a key to examine culturally constructed concepts like privacy, public, public right to know, and justice. Working from close readings of news coverage, codes of ethics and style guides, and personal interviews with almost 200 news professionals, this book offers fertile material for a provocative conversation. We use our findings to divide the ten countries studied into three media models; we explore what the differing coverage decisions suggest about underlying attitudes to criminals and crime, and how justice in a democracy is best served. Today, journalists' work can be disseminated around the world without any consideration of whether what's being told (or how) might dissolve cultural differences or undermine each community's right to set its own standards to best reflect its citizens' values. At present, unique reporting practices persist among our three models, but the internet and social media threaten to dissolve distinctions and the cultural values they reflect. We need a journalism that both opens local conversations and bridges differences among nations. This book is a first step in that direction"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PN4756
SN 9780190863531
SN 9780190863548
K1 Journalistic ethics : Europe, Western : History : 21st century
K1 Journalistic ethics : North America : History : 21st century
K1 Crime and the press : Europe, Western : History : 21st century
K1 Crime and the press : North America : History : 21st century
K1 Journalism : Objectivity : Europe, Western : History : 21st century
K1 Journalism : Objectivity : North America : History : 21st century
K1 Kriminalität : Berichterstattung : Journalismus : Ethik : Internationaler Vergleich