MEDIA ETHICS

Media and its Responsibilities

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Media and its Responsibilities

Introduction

There are many groups that manipulate media and information because they are aware of the power that the media have to influence the consciousness of people, and that is why the media have a moral responsibility to disseminate information with a sense of ethics for the benefit training of children, youth and society, as the media are precisely those that influence the individual's consciousness, make up the mind and shaping the vision of things. While corporate responsibility occupies a growing place in reputation strategies, as well as in relationship-based marketing and stakeholder relations, very little research has been conducted on how these strategies are represented over time in news media.

Media Ethics

The media has become a major factor of our times and the influence it has on people young and old. You would think that the world has enough influence all around them during their everyday lives and then we come home and turn on our televisions, pick up a newspaper, a magazine, or even the computer and it is all right there. Over the years the media has been more open and I believe that has a lot to do with the growing of our minds and our children's minds and they are just trying to keep up and keep people interested even though it may be a little risky to show no matter what station it is on. We have to be careful and protect ourselves and our children from what they may see or hear on the television now and days (Maria et al, 2010).

Not only in the newspapers and the major news television stations that are providing information to the world and some of us being so naïve and thinking that since it is the news it should be accurate being that they are nationally known and do not want to be sued for putting out false information; some of the media is so money hungry they find someone "close" to the person of interest and use whatever information is given to them and pay off the informant in hopes for being the first to release the information although they probably have paid them big bucks for some information that may not even be true (Rolland, 2010). There is always a chance of there being some truth to the story but not all of it actually being true. That is where the naïve people of the world come in and feed into the non-sense that is being sold to us to believe just to make some money. The media goes back before the United States was even a free nation; they printed newspapers that allowed the reader to write their own comments under the stories that were printed.

Problems and Issues in Media

A theoretical issue peculiar to media ethics is the identity of observer and observed. The press is one of the primary guardians in a democratic society of many of the freedoms, rights and duties ...