scholarly journals Coverage of medical cannabis by Canadian news media: Ethics, access, and policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 103361
Author(s):  
Margot Gunning ◽  
Judy Illes
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Medical Cannabis

scholarly journals Pacific Journalism Monographs No 2: Coups, conflicts and human rights

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
News Media ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Corporate Integrity

At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations of phone-hacking and corruption against the now defunct Rupert Murdoch tabloid newspaper News Of The World. Major inquiries on media ethics, professionalism and accountability have been examining the state of the press in New Zealand, Britain and Australia. The Murdoch media empire has stretched into the South Pacific with the sale of one major title being forced by political pressure. The role of news media in global South nations and the declining credibility of some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate also pose challenges for the future of democracy. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are increasingly critical media issues in the digital age for a region faced with coups, conflicts and human rights violations, such as in Fiji and West Papua. In this monograph, Professor David Robie reflects on the challenges in the context of the political economy of the media and journalism education in the Asia-Pacific region. He also engages with emerging disciplines such as deliberative journalism, peace journalism, human rights journalism, and revisits notions of critical development journalism and citizen journalism.

scholarly journals Between facts and ambiguity: Discourses on medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers

2021 ◽  
pp. 145507252199699
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Medical Cannabis ◽  
Abstract Form ◽  
Science Discourse ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
The Media

Aim: This study examines the discursive construction of medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers, with the aim of understanding how the news media recontextualise the medical potential of cannabis. Design: The study is centred on the concept of recontextualisation, which focuses on how discourses are reinterpreted and reshaped when moving from one context to another, with a special focus on recontextualisation in relation to the media. Methodologically, the study uses critical discourse analysis to qualitatively analyse 134 articles of different subgenres, published in four Swedish newspapers between 2015 and 2020. Results: The study shows that medical cannabis is constructed around myriad topics and contexts, ranging from news that focuses on the medical potential of cannabis to articles where medical cannabis is mentioned in passing and constructed in a more abstract form. The media have difficulties retaining a conceptual boundary between medical and recreational cannabis. Moreover, the study shows that the medical potential of cannabis is discursively constructed using three different discourses: patient discourse, strong science discourse, and weak science discourse. Conclusions: The study suggests that there is a widening of the debate on cannabis in the Swedish public sphere, giving more recognition to the potential medical use of cannabis. The media, however, show difficulties in refining discourses on medical cannabis, which results in an altering between constructions that are strongly connected to science, and those that are not.

A study on Democratization of Newspaper Medium and its Political Bias

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maumita Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
News Story ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
Systematic Biases

There are claims of media bias in both news and entertainment media. There are a variety of watchdog groups that attempt to find the facts behind both biased reporting and unfounded claims of bias, and research about media bias is a subject of systematic scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Before the rise of professional journalism in the early 1900s, and the conception of media ethics, newspapers reflected the opinions of the publisher. The advent of the Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s, was a period of relative reform with a particular journalistic style, while early in the period, some American newspapers engaged in yellow journalism to increase sales. William Randolph Hearst, publisher of several majormarket newspapers, for example, deliberately falsified stories of incidents, which may have contributed to the Spanish-American War. There are a number of criteria for determining the prominence of a news story in media outlets and the attention it is given by the audience. One example is that negative news is given higher value and more prominence than positive news. In modern all-news media, there is the necessity of generating enough news to fill the media 24/7, even when no news-worthy events occur. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988) proposed a propaganda model to explain the systematic biases of U.S. media as a consequence of the pressure to create a stable and profitable business. In this view, the regime creates five filters that bias news in favor of U.S. corporate interests. According to Noam Chomsky, American commercial media encourage controversy within a narrow range of opinion, in order to give the impression of open debate, but do not report on news that falls outside that range. Now, it has been a question even to Indian Newspaper Medium that how far it has been democratic in its presentation of news. All the newspapers whether having regional, state, national or even international news, they are politically biased. How much we are getting news in the daily newspapers other than politics? Why some of the newspapers have become the spokesperson of individual political parties? Why can’t the newspapers be independent? Then where lies the term and the myth ‘objectivity’ in different newspapers? Why we are getting the same news with different angles, presentation and representation in different newspapers? These are some of the objectives of this paper and the paper will try to analyze, discuss, criticize and assess the biasness of print media towards political issues having case studies and examples of some national dailies.

scholarly journals Truth, Al Jazeera, and Crisis Journalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Clifford G. Christians ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
International Media ◽  
Social Media Networks ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Concept Of Truth ◽  
Definition Of

Truth is the generally accepted standard of news media organizations and of social media networks. Most of the codes of ethics including Al Jazeera’s specify the reporters’ duty to tell the truth. In the traditional view, objective reporting is not merely the standard of competent professionalism, but considered a moral imperative. With the dominant scheme increasingly controversial, theoretical work in international media ethics seeks to transform it intellectually. Truth needs to be released from its parochial moorings in the West and given a global understanding. A new concept of truth as authentic disclosure accomplishes this, and that definition means to get at the core issue, to see the essence of things. The question in researching Al Jazeera is whether it practices what might be called “interpretive sufficiency.” This is a robust view of news as knowledge production, in contrast with news as simply informational. Using Al Jazeera as a case study, the new definition of truth-as-disclosure is applied to crisis journalism. Keywords: International News, Truth, Media Ethics, Interpretation, Propaganda

News media ethics and the management of professionals

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Birkhead
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Ethics

Association: APA mobilizes to meet requests of the news media

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
News Media
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