JRN 430 answers
In journalism ethics, what are professional codes?✔✔Codes that are the conduct
and standard for journalists to follow being objective and truthful
When a journalist faces a ethical challenge, he or she need to resort to ethical
values. Please give an example of a value.✔✔Yes ethics are important for
professionalism. For example, reporting something ethical such as seeing the
governor with a woman who isn't his wife
What is objectivity in journalism?✔✔Being honest and reporting without any type of
bias. If you see it, you should report it as you see it
What is the name of the first element of the Potter's Box ethical decision-making
model- it is the first square box on the left.✔✔Understanding the facts
Why there are too many errors in journalism?✔✔Not knowing the community,
carelessness, and ignorance.
Give one example of faking the news that our text Ethics in Journalism
lists.✔✔Yellow Journalism; essentially reporting something with little to no attribution.
What is the Rule of Law?✔✔It is the legal standard in which our society abides by.
What is legal and illegal.
What is precedent?✔✔Judging a decision on a case by using decisions from
previous cases.
What is jurisdiction?✔✔The order in which a court will receive a case. For example,
in the Casey Anthony trial the state of Florida would have jurisdiction over the
Supreme Court.
What is concurring opinion?✔✔An opinion in which justices agree on a particular
matter.
What is common law?✔✔Unwritten, judge-made law consisting of rules and
principles developed through custom and precedent
What is constitutional law?✔✔The set of laws that establish the nature, functions and
limits of government.
What is statutory law?✔✔A law that town, county, state, and federal follow and is
understood and followed amongst all areas.
What is prior restraint?✔✔Action taken by the government to prohibit publication of a
specific document or text before it is distributed.
What is defamation?✔✔A false communication damaging an individuals reputation
In journalism ethics, what are professional codes?✔✔Codes that are the conduct
and standard for journalists to follow being objective and truthful
When a journalist faces a ethical challenge, he or she need to resort to ethical
values. Please give an example of a value.✔✔Yes ethics are important for
professionalism. For example, reporting something ethical such as seeing the
governor with a woman who isn't his wife
What is objectivity in journalism?✔✔Being honest and reporting without any type of
bias. If you see it, you should report it as you see it
What is the name of the first element of the Potter's Box ethical decision-making
model- it is the first square box on the left.✔✔Understanding the facts
Why there are too many errors in journalism?✔✔Not knowing the community,
carelessness, and ignorance.
Give one example of faking the news that our text Ethics in Journalism
lists.✔✔Yellow Journalism; essentially reporting something with little to no attribution.
What is the Rule of Law?✔✔It is the legal standard in which our society abides by.
What is legal and illegal.
What is precedent?✔✔Judging a decision on a case by using decisions from
previous cases.
What is jurisdiction?✔✔The order in which a court will receive a case. For example,
in the Casey Anthony trial the state of Florida would have jurisdiction over the
Supreme Court.
What is concurring opinion?✔✔An opinion in which justices agree on a particular
matter.
What is common law?✔✔Unwritten, judge-made law consisting of rules and
principles developed through custom and precedent
What is constitutional law?✔✔The set of laws that establish the nature, functions and
limits of government.
What is statutory law?✔✔A law that town, county, state, and federal follow and is
understood and followed amongst all areas.
What is prior restraint?✔✔Action taken by the government to prohibit publication of a
specific document or text before it is distributed.
What is defamation?✔✔A false communication damaging an individuals reputation
