Summary
Daniel Cornu: Ethics of information
Ethics of information by Daniel Cornu is the first book of its kind in our country. It is actually a concise introduction to this issue in the liberal societies of the West. The first three chapters are devoted to journalistic ethics and contain, along with a brief history, considerations on the instruments of professional ethics (press councils, ombudsman, national and international codes) and on all the important principles on which it is based. In our conditions, this part of the book will also serve as a journalist's manual. The fourth chapter presents the ethics of the media as an institution, and the last one raises the question of the responsibility of the public itself for the quality of information. opens the problem of collision between legal regulations and journalistic ethics.
The search for truth is the central issue of journalistic ethics and Cornu analyzes it in detail; as well as the problem of journalistic objectivity. He considers media executives to be equally responsible for various types of abuses, and he sees the greatest danger to ethical journalism in the West in the power of money.
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