JREM 175 04 10 2012 Exceptions Newscast news interviews news documentaries on thespot news events Fairness Doctrine providing equal time for public issues providing time for someone who is prolife vs someone that is pro abortion have to have equal both sides period FCC stopped enforcing it since the 1950 s now talking about permantely removing it Congress wants to bring it back resurrect because of conservative radio problem everyone would want to be on the news and talk about it Ethics right and wrong moral code Said that news have no ethics but all news including radio have a code of ethics Guiding Principles Seek truth and report fully as possible Act independently Minimize harm Source Poynteronline Guidelines Considerations Self regulation o Scott Kelly doing 60 minutes on New Orleans rebuild on Katrina flagged his story he knew it was coming and the ethic s department warned him he did nothing wrong people just didn t like it the news channel stuck to their story land being higher above see level RTDNA SPJ Radio Television Digital News Associations Society of Professional Journalist Gifts favors compensation going to eat with someone you re about to right story on many organizations have their own code of ethics most organizations do a limit like 20 o Casey Anthony s family interviewed at the studio in New York we re flew to New York in their private jet rumors say they helped pay some of her legal fee s ABC is getting questioned much on this o The pictures on her daughter licensed pictures reason it s always the same pictures o Bidding wars even though your not suppose to pay for stories someone is paying Broadcast standards everything before hits the air has to go through standards and practices graphics entertainment o 1990 s ABC butt shot through shower door o GCB Good Christian Bells was suppose to be Good Christian Bitches said they didn t want to be associated with the name so changed it Broadcast standards v producers what would happen if all graphic scenes of spilburg s movies about Holocaust if you took it out it d be short movie with nothing NBC and spilburg came to agreement to air movie Ethical Decisions in Journalism Pictures o Natural disasters Katrina shots with body bags behind them Haiti shot of just child s leg o War conflict Mexico bodies decapitated Haiti feet Syria and Egypt o Technology Katie Kuric photoshop one magazine normal picture next lost 20 pounds she called them out airbrush Beyonce Loreal they made her lighter o 911 call interviewer asked to describe the guy and asked if he was black white and he said black but the producer cut out the question when aired so sounded like he said wondering man that s black Ethics Rubric Evaluate Truth Harm Investigation o Story on miners where they said they were still alive and families started to celebrate only to find out only one was still alive Code of Ethics Situational Ethics Communication Model Telephone transmitting a message and by the time it gets to the end the story is never the same Effects Interest Groups o PMRC Walmart volunteering only carry certain ratings Academic institutions o All effected media at some point High profile Effects Violence Cartoon s Tom Jerry Roadrunner 1960s Vietnam war was the first that American s saw image of LBJ established 2 national commissions 1968 Violence and the media 1969 Surgeon General s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior o Toy guns playing a record backwards FCC and Action for Children s Television ACT ACT and PMRC PMRC voluntarily ACT regulations Politics and Electronic Media Section 315 Equal Time Rules if a broadcasting station permits one legally qualified candidate for any elective public office to use its facilities it must afford an equal opportunity for all other legally qualified candidates for the same office only during election periods and for legally qualified candidates what you do for one you have to do for all a lot of TV and radio cut it out so now campaigns have their own production companies Exceptions Kennedy Nixon debate 1960 o Networks thought Kennedy would look great on TV o Networks went to Congress and got an exception so only those two would be in debates on TV Newscasts news interviews news documentaries on the spot news events o Governor Haslam used to be mayor of Knoxville would get TV coverage not as a candidate but as mayor Fairness Doctrine o Providing equal time for public issues Both sides of the issue are given opportunity o Went out with deregulation in the 1980s Still in the FCC list thing but it s not been enforced since the 80s o Would probably clog up all air time o Some members of Congress want to bring it back because of Rush Limbaugh Ethics and Effects o Guiding Principles Seek truth and report fully as possible Act independently o o o o Minimize harm Withhold your own comments Witness protection Self regulation Big networks have a person anbuzzman who leads ethical considerations for everyone in that network Organizations with their own codes of ethics RTDNA Radio Television Digital News Association SPJ Society of Professional Journalist Gifts favors compensation Casey Anthony s parents were flown to New York in a jet to guest on Good Morning America Bidding war on Amanda Knox and who gets to interview her since she s writing her book You re not supposed to pay for stories but someone s always being compensated Broadcast standards Everything before it hits the air has to go through standards and practices CNN and decapitated body picture Aired with tons of disclaimers NYPD Blue Butt shot through shower door Advertisers threatening to pull GCB Don t Trust the B in Apt 23 Sh t My Dad Says Broadcast standards vs producers o Schindler s List Lots of graphic scenes that couldn t be taken out Spielberg vs NBC Aired the scenes with disclaimers after every single commercial Saving Private Ryan Cut out the whole beginning scene Ethical Decisions in Journalism o Pictures Natural disasters What can you show Ask yourself do I really need this War conflict Technology o You can edit things o Photoshop airbrushing Katie Couric shaved off 20 pounds Beyonce they made her skin lighter Hispanic Latino actors were made to look less Hispanic Latino Edited sound bites o Conversations on reality TV o NBC edited 911 call to make it sound more racist Today Show aired that and that producer was fired from NBC News o NBC released video that Virginia Tech guy sent them just days after the crime apologized later