As assigned by my Communication Professor, I 'am to write a short recap of each of the classes I attend with my own unique thoughts on the topic we discussed.
This past week the subject was a short history of journalism and how that related and effected how we receive news today. It was interesting as well as comforting to know that their quasi philosophical model that journalist have tried to abide to in dispersing the news. The 6 C's: Constitutional, constructive, community oriented, credible, courageous & guided by conscience. My first impression of this list of journalistic ethics was comforting to know that we had something like this in place. As I said that they at least had some unifying guide to keep news at some quality or state and presented with judgment and discernment for their audience. As I thought more upon the 6 C's I become somewhat surprise that list was it. If you think about it there is a lot of room for personal interpretation on how for say one might go about being "courageous" in their news telling. I suppose that a code of ethics for something as vital as for the news should not interfere with the freedom to speech that is so important in our country. It is exciting to become more familiar with how we as fellow members of society have developed appropriate and efficient ways of sharing information about each other across the globe and within our own communities. I hope to continue to learn and develop my own writing and communication skills to be clear and informative if not engaging and compelling on future audiences I may touch.
One last note to mention Professor Campbell touched on a branch of journalism known as solution journalism with the purpose to have results come from the news they disperse. That sounded very interesting to me & I’d like to take some more time to see what that’s all about.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7284791_code-conduct-journalists.html
http://media.gn.apc.org/nujcode.html
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