Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essay : Cases and moral systems / / Deni Elliott -- -- How to read a case study / / Philip Patterson -- -- What's yours is mine : the ethics of news aggregation / / Chad Painter -- -- Is it news yet? / / Michelle Peltier -- -- Visualizing September 11th / / Sara Gettys -- -- The spouse is squeezed : A South Carolina TV reporter's attempt to conceal her source / / Sonya Forte Duhé -- -- When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting? / / Theodore L. Glasser -- -- Monitoring The monitor : taste, politics and an explosive photo / / Gina Bramucci -- -- Corporate responsibility : just sales or doing well by doing good? / / Christine Lesicko -- -- Tailgate approved? : the rise and all of the Fan Can / / Erin Schauster -- -- Taking it for a spin : accepting product samples in the newsroom / / Philip Patterson -- -- Was that an Apple computer I just saw? : a comparison of product placement in U.S. network television and abroad / / Philip Patterson -- -- Breaking through the clutter : ads that make you think twice / / Fritz Cropp IV -- -- In the eye of the beholder : Dove's campaign for real beauty / / Brandi Herman-Rose -- -- Quit, blow the whistle or go with the flow? / / Robert D. Wakefield -- -- Getting the story, getting arrested : photojournalism and activism / / Lee Wilkins -- -- The New York Times Sudan "Advertorial" : blood money or the marketplace of ideas? / / Heather Holloway -- -- Twitter ethics for journalists : can you scoop yourself? / / Charlotte Bellis -- -- Where everybody knows your name : reporting and relationships in a small market / / Ginny Whitehouse -- -- A question of role : is a documentary filmmaker a friend, a journalist or an entertainer? / / Nancy Mitchell -- -- Conflicted interests, contested terrain : the New York Times code of ethics / / Bonnie Brennen -- -- Freebies and the Houston rodeo / / Jim Matheny -- -- Can you relate : cross-cultural sensitivity and reporting / / Isabel Ordo?éz -- -- Funeral photos of fallen soldiers : public interest or public outrage? / / Penny Cockerell, Philip Patterson -- -- A person of interest / / Cara DeMichele -- -- Blind justice? : on naming Kobe Bryant's accuser after the rape charge is dropped / / Patrick Lee Plaisance -- -- Children, privacy and framing : the use of children's images in an anti-same-sex marriage ad / / Yang Liu -- -- Cable news : 24/7 political speech or something else? / / Su Jing -- -- Victims and the press / / Robert Logan -- -- Painful images of war : too painful for whom? when? / / Beverly Horvit -- For God and country : the media and national security / Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle -- -- Mayor Jim West's computer / / Ginny Whitehouse -- -- Journalists or jokesters : the pimp, the prostitute, and an ACORN that fell away from the tree / / Philip Patterson -- -- Crossing the line? : the L.A. Times and the Staples affair / / Meredith Bradford, Philip Patterson -- -- Profit versus news : the case of the L.A. Times and the Tribune Company / / Lee Wilkins -- -- "Bonding" announcements in the news / / Joann Byrd -- -- Punishing the messenger : the tobacco industry and the press / / Steve Weinberg -- -- Paying the (newspaper) bills / / Ivy Ashe -- -- Daniel Pearl and the Boston Phoenix : too much of a bad thing? / / Timothy Ragones -- -- Problem photos and public outcry / / Jon Roosenraad -- -- Manipulating photos : is it ever justified? / / Lee Wilkins -- -- "Above the fold" : balancing newsworthy photos with community standards / / Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman -- -- Horror in Soweto / / Sue O'Brien -- -- Death in print : publication of Hurricane Katrina photographs / / Abigail M. Pheiffer -- -- Digital manipulation as deceit? : a case study of a Redbook magazine cover / / Elizabeth Hendrickson -- -- Ethics on the Internet : abiding by the rules of the road on the Information Superhighway / / Bruce Lewenstein -- -- What were you linking? / / Paul Voakes -- -- The information sleazeway : robust comment meets the data robots / / Fred Vultee -- -- Death underneath the media radar : the Anuak genocide in Ethiopia / / Doug McGill -- -- Ownership of information in a digital age : problems and possibilities / / Lee Wilkins -- -- Sending the wrong message about doing the right thing / / Naomi Weisbrook -- -- Looking for truth behind the Wal-Mart blogs / / Philip Patterson -- -- When radio comedy crosses the line : trouble at the BBC / / Brian Simmons -- -- Hardly art / / Mito Habe-Evans -- -- "Schindler's List" : the role of memory / / Lee Wilkins -- -- Naomi Campbell : do celebrities have privacy? / / Lee Wilkins -- -- Hate radio : the outer limits of tasteful broadcasting / / Brian Simmons -- -- Do you really want to hurt me? : Michael Reidel and theater criticism / / Brian M. Vandevender.

By combining real-life cases with a succinct introduction to ethical theory, this text helps prepare one for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions.--[book cover].