Media Ethics, Fall 2012 (Readings & Viewings)

Michael Mario Albrecht

Media Ethics

Fall, 2012, Eckerd College

List of Readings and Viewings

Addicted to Plastic. Dir. Ian Connacher. Cyrptic Moth Productions, 2008. Film.

All the President’s Men. Dir. Alan Pakula. Warner Bros., 1976. Film.

And the Band Played On. Dir. Roger Spottiswoode. Home Box Office, 1993. Film.

Ayn Rand and the Prophesy of Atlas Shrugged. Dir. Christ Mortensen. Mad Universe, 2011. Film.

Christians, Clifford G., Mark Fackler, and John P. Ferré. Ethics for Public Communication: Defining Moments in Media History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.

Control Room. Dir. Jehane Noujaim. Noujaim Films, 2004. Film.

Cooke-Jackson, Angela and Elizabeth K. Hansen. “Appalachian Culture and Reality TV: The Ethical Dilemma of Stereotyping Others.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 23 (2008): 183-200. Web.

Copyright Criminals. Dirs. Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod. Changing Images, 2009. Film.

Davies, Cristyn. “Proliferating Panic: Regulating Representations of Sex and Gender during the Culture Wars.” Cultural Studies Review 14.2 (2008): 83-102. Web.

Dean, John. "Presidential Power Has Crept Back: Room for Debate.” NYTimes.com, 14 June 2012. Web.

Fat Head. Dir. Tom Naughton. Vine Street Pictures, 2009. Film.

Feldstein, Mark. “Watergate Revisited.” American Journalism Review, August/September 2004. Web.

Ghate, Debi. “Celebrate Thanksgiving the Ayn Rand Way: Thank Yourself.” The Christian Science Monitor, 25 November 2009. Web.

Giroux, Henry A. “Playing the Race Card: Media Politics and the O.J. Simpson Verdict.” Art Papers 20 (1996): 14-19. Web.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. Dir. Alex Gibney. Magnolia Pictures, 2008. Film.

Good Night and Good Luck. Dir. George Clooney. Metropolitan, 2005. Film.

Hintz, Arne. “Challenges to Freedom of Expression in the Digital World: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring.” ESSACHESS. Journal for Communication Studies 5.1 (2012): 83-105.

Inside Deep Throat. Dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato. Imagine Entertainment, 2005. Film.

Jackson, Pamela Taylor. “News as a Contested Commodity: A Clash of Capitalist and Journalistic Imperatives.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 24 (2009): 146-63. Web.

Luskin, Donald L. "Remembering Ayn Rand." Wall Street Journal, 14 Apr. 2011. Web.

Meddaugh, Priscilla Marie and Jack Kay. “Hate Speech or ‘Reasonable Racism?’: The Other in Stormfront.” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 24.4 (2009): 251-68. Web.

The Modern Racist Paradigm. Totalitarian TipToe, 2007. Film.

Mosser, Jason. “What’s Gonzo about Gonzo Journalism?” Literary Journalism Studies 4.1 (2012): 85-90. Web.

Osborne, Monica. “Dropping the H(olocaust) Bomb.” BINA Salon, 2011. Web.

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism. Dir. Robert Greenwald. Carolina Productions, 2004.

Parks, Lisa. “Insecure Airwaves: US Bombings of Aljazeera.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4.2 (2007): 226-31. Web.

Pump Up the Volume. Dir. Allan Moyle. New Line Cinema, 1990.

Rand, Ayn. “The Objectivist Ethics.” The Internet Classics Archive. Ayn Rand Institute, February 9, 1961. Web.

Robertson, Kristen, Lisa McNeill, James Green, and Claire Roberts. “Illegal Downloading, Ethical Concern, and Illegal Behavior.” Journal of Business Ethics 108 (2012): 215-27. Web.

Rodman, Gilbert B. and Cheyanne Vanderdonckt. "Music for Nothing or, I Want My Mp3." Cultural Studies 20.2-3 (2006): 245-61. Web.

Rokuson, Amy. “‘To Catch a Predator’ Gets Caught: Are NBC’s Television Journalists Sacrificing Media Ethics and Legal Procedures for a Chance in the Spotlight?” Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 19.2 (2009): 511-37. Web.

Sambrook, Richard. “Delivering Trust: Impartiality and Objectivity in the Digital Age.” University of Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 2012. Web.

Sheehan, Brian, James Tsao, and James Pokrywczynski. “Stop the Music!: How Advertising Can Help Stop College Students from Downloading Music Illegally.” Journal of Advertising Research 52.3 (2012): 309-21. Web.

Shipp, E.R. “O.J. and the Black Media: Neither a Typical Hero Nor a Typical Victim, He Challenges Typical Coverage.” Columbia Journalism Review 33.4 (1994): 39-41. Web.

Smith, Raymond A. and Jacob Levenson. Index on Censorship 33 (2004): 70-75. Web.

Swain, Kristen Alley. “Approaching the Quarter Century Mark: AIDS Coverage and Research Decline as Infection Spreads. Critical Studies in Media Communication 22.3 (2005): 258-62. Web.

Super Size Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Studio on Hudson, 2004. Film.

Thank You for Smoking. Dir. Jason Reitman. Content Film, 2005. Film.

Thompson, Hunter S. “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved." Scanlan's Monthly, June 1970. Web.

The Truman Show Dir. Peter Weir. Paramount Pictures, 1998. Film.

Walker, Michael Wingfield. “Artistic Freedom v. Censorship: The Aftermath of the NEA’s New Funding Restrictions.” Washington University Law Review 71.3 (1993): 937-56. Web.

Walker, Neil. “Universalism and Particularism in Human Rights: Trade-Off or Productive Tension?” Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper 2012.10 (2012). Web.

“Wounded Knee ’73.” We Shall Remain. Dir. Chris Eyre and Sharon Grimberg. PBS Studio, 2009. TV Show.

Žižek, Slavoj. “Welcome to the Desert of the Real.” The Symptom 2 (2002). Web.