Lecture Eight

This lecture surrounded the subject of ethics. Here we learnt that something can be technically "good ethics" but portrayed in bad taste and vice versa, whereas I just believed that bad taste meant bad ethics. This was then elaborated in terms of Ethical Theories: Deontology, Consequentialism, Virtue. After hearing these, I personally believe in the virtuous theory of ethics, such as courage, justice, temperance, prudence - habits of character. However since, unfortunately, not every journalist, such as not every person in general, possesses these caricatures, the Deontological guidelines enforced upon the journalism world do ensure, for the most part, some sort of virtue. Alas in saying that there is still many a journalist out there with a consequentialistic stance on ethics.