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Table of Contents to the 7th Edition

Introduction: Ethical Foundations and Perspectives.

The Potter Box Model of Reasoning.

Using Ethical Principles.

Five Ethical Guidelines.

To Whom is Moral Duty Owed?

Who Ought to Decide?

Part I: NEWS.

Chapter 1. Institutional Pressures.

Case 1- The New York Times fires Jayson Blair.

Case 2- CNN in Baghdad.

Case 3- The Time Warner Colossus.

Case 4- NBC and GM's Pickup.

Case 5- The Wichita Experiment.

Chapter 2. Truthtelling.

Case 6- Al Jazeera.

Case 7- Reporting on Enron.

Case 8- The Unabomber's Manifesto.

Case 9- Fabrication at The Globe.

Case 10- An Enemy of the People.

Chapter 3. Reporters and Sources.

Case 11- Covering the Middle East

Case 12- Stolen Voice Mail.

Case 13- Embedded Reporters.

Case 14- Risky Foods.

Chapter 4. Social Justice.

Case 15- Affirmative Action in Michigan.

Case 16- Distributing the Internet.

Case 17- Sexism and World Cup Soccer.

Case 18- Ten Weeks at Wounded Knee.

Chapter 5. Invasion of Privacy.

Case 19- The Controversial Patriot Act.

Case 20- Privacy in Cyberspace.

Case 21- A Prostitute on Page 12.

Case 22- Dead Body Photo.

Part II. PERSUASION IN ADVERTISING.

Chapter 6. Special Audiences.

Case 23- The Littlest Consumers.

Case 24- Selling Students to Advertisers?

Case 25- Some Say “No” More Often than Others.

Case 26- The Bill Sell for a “Purely Progressive Tax.”

Case 27- The Vagina Dialogues.

Chapter 7. What to Advertise.

Case 28- A Magazine and Its Cigarettes.

Case 29- Does Alcohol Advertising Get a “Free Ride?”

Case 30- Promoting “Smart Tanning?”

Case 31- Feminine Hygiene in the Living Room.

Case 32- Empowering or Manipulating the Health Care Consumer?

Chapter 8. How To Say It.

Case 33- No Holds Barred—The Rise of Guerrilla Marketing.

Case 34- Yo Quiero Stereotype?

Case 35- Making the Same Different: Parity Products.

Case 36- Defining Outrageousness Down.

Case 37- Anorexic Chic?

Chapter 9. Media Considerations.

Case 38- Gatekeepers I: Closing the Door.

Case 39- Gatekeepers II: Opening the Door.

Case 40- Farewell to a “Sanctuary from Advertising”

Case 41- Infomercials—“They Need to Make You Rich, Thin, or Beautiful. The Best Do All Three.”

Case 42- The Non-Advertising-Free Internet—In Search of a Balance.

Part III. PERSUASION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS.

Chapter 10. Public Communication.

Case 43- Mr. Ethics Sells Out.

Case 44- Playing Defense on the Court(room) of Public Opinion.

Case 45- A Public Relations “Discovery.”

Case 46- A Campaign Pioneer?

Chapter 11. Telling the Truth in Organizational Settings.

Case 47- A Good Thing?

Case 48- A Committed Front?

Case 49- A Sale at the Local Nonprofit?

Case 50- A Web of Caring.

Chapter 12. Conflicting Loyalties.

Case 51- A New Client?

Case 52- Case 1: Friends? Case 2:The Friendly Journalist?

Case 53- Politician Pitches Pills.

Case 54- All Too Human?

Case 55- The Long-Distance Client.

Chapter 13. The Demands of Social Responsibility.

Case 56- Practicing Good Citizenship.

Case 57- Pepsi Challenged by Rumors.

Case 58- Smart Giving.

Case 59- The Medical Endorsement?

Case 60- Caught on Tape.

Part IV. ENTERTAINMENT.

Chapter 14. Violence.

Case 61- Hear It, Feel It, Do It.

Case 62- Crunchy Terror in T-Rex Park.

Case 63- “The Storyteller.”

Case 64- Comic Capers.

Chapter 15. Profits, Wealth, and Public Trust.

Case 65- Crude Script for Tinsel Town.

Case 66- Virtual Whitewash.

Case 67- Deep Trouble for Harry.

Case 68- Super Strip.

Case 69- Sue Thomas, F.B. Eye.

Chapter 16. Media Scope and Depth.

Case 70- Reel History.

Case 71- Bigotry as Entertainment.

Case 72- They Call it Paradise.

Case 73- Tragedy Lite.

Case 74- The League of Literary Makeovers.

Chapter 17. Censorship.

Chapter 75- The Voice of America.

Chapter 76- Fencing the Net.

Chapter 77- Frontal Assault.

Chapter 78- Life Stinks.

Epilogue.

Recommended Readings.

   
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