Comparative Media Law and Ethics by Crook Tim;

Author:Crook, Tim;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2009-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

In the US John C.Merrill, in his 1997 text Journalism Ethics: Philosophical Foundations for News Media, declared: ‘Criticism of the media is crashing in from all sides. Journalism and its practitioners increasingly are being cast as social villains, dispensing superficial, negative, and sensational information harmful to the health of society.’ The Hutchins Commission studied the US Press during and after the Second World War and its 1947 report is often cited as historical evidence of the US media’s socially irresponsible past. However, historicist treatments of the report often fail to contextualize the fact that the commission was criticized at the time for having no experienced journalists or editors, and in the words of Frank Hughes in his 1950 vituperative polemic, Prejudice and the Press: A Restatement of the Principle of Freedom of the Press with Specific Reference to the Hutchins-Luce Commission:

it is propaganda and not scholarship. […] None of the members have more than a remote acquaintance with the industry the ‘commission’ sought to investigate, and they made no moves, in three years, to get acquainted with it, unless by hearsay. Objectivity may be a virtue, but the objectivity of ignorance has never produced anything socially useful, nor is it considered to be scholarly.

(Hughes 1950:24–5)

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