English Presentation - Yee Theng, Shaquille, Tzun Kai

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Ethical Dilemmas - Michael

Hi everyone, I'm Michael from S203. Today I will be sharing my opinions of Ethical Dilemmas Journalist face. Out of the 7 ethical dilemma, I feel that Invasion of Privacy, Bias and plagiarism. 

Firstly, I will talk about the Invasion of privacy. Everyone is entitled to their own privacy rights. A journalist must respect that and get permission before they report about someone. They should also understand that everyone has a private life, and it is not ethical to go undercover to spy on every thing that they do. If they do not, the consequences can be dire for both parties -- The journalist may face legal action and the person the journalist reported on may lose their reputation or social status. One example would be in order to find out more about the making of the latest product, the reporter may go through the private documents of the company and report it. This will allow other companies to know the secret in making that product, and the original company would lose a lot of money. 

Secondly, being bias is also an important ethical dilemma. Everyone is biased by nature, and often we do not realise it. If the journalist feels biased towards one side, he would interview that side more and might even tweak his report to support that one side. This will only show the reader one side of the story, making it unfair for the other party. As a journalist, it is important for them to put their opinions aside and give every party an equal chance to speak, giving the audience a wider perspective of the whole story. If a journalist is biased against a certain group of people, the african americans, they may not take their side of a story, even if they may be right. 

Last but not least, is plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking other’s work and claiming it as your own. For example, if you copy someone else’s report can republishing it as your own, it is considered as plagiarism, even if you have edited it or changed it. Plagiarism is illegal and frowned upon in society. If you source your information from other reports, it is important to credit them. 

That’s all. I’ve been Michael, thanks for tuning in to my podcast.

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3 Ethical Dilemmas

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Ethical Dilemmas - Dylan

Hi I am Dylan from S203 and the 3 Ethical Dilemmas I have chosen are biasness, plagiarism and Offending or Distasteful Content. 

First off, I would like to explain the first one, and it is biasness. I feel that it is important as a reporter who is bias may only decide to report what he think is right and not both sides of the story. For example, if a reporter is extremely bias towards an opposition party in the General Election, he may only report what the Opposition says and not what the other parties says. He may make it sound like the other parties are very unreliable and untreatable. This may give the viewers different perspectives of what is happening. 

Second is plagiarism. If the journalist takes pictures or quotes speeches from a certain website, book or another news article, he has to put in the source. If the journalist does not do it, the person who owns the pictures or articles may sue the journalist for copyright. This is illegal and a person who may have spent hours, days, months or even years may find his work that he published on the internet, with the poster claiming that the work was his. The person may feel extremely agitated as his work was stolen by somebody else. 

Last is offending content. If the journalist says something racist, he may get fired from his job. For example if he relates Indians as something offensive and displeases the viewers in one way or another. This may affect the racial harmony between different religions as what he said is very offensive and may be punishable by Law. What's more, if the reporter has a negative feeling towards a certain race, he may not report what is right and just report his personal feelings towards the religion that he hates. 

3 Ethical Dilemmas (Ek Hern)

Here are 3 of the possible many ethical dilemmas journalists the world over face that I think impact a story the most.

Underaged children being interviewed:
Children under the age of 11 usually are not suitable to interview under journalistic ethics. However in certain cases, children are the only witnesses able to talk about it. Children also have a somewhat poorer judgement than most other people due to their still developing minds. What does one do in this situation?

Undercover Journalism:
Sometimes there is no choice. In Myanmar for example, journalists are deported and even jailed. So there may be no choice except to go undercover as someone else. This way has its own potential hazards. You could be arrested under espionage charges(Spying). Is it a worth while risk to take?

Bribery:

It is in the ethical code. No bribing interviewees. But you've got the do what you've got to do when no one want to talk about anything even remotely related to the situation. The cases are rare but there are some journalists who do it.

3 Ethical Dilemmas - Afif

I am Afif from S203 and today I’ll be talking to you about three ethical dilemmas that i have chosen. 

The first one is plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you take something from the internet or any other written source of information and then claiming it as your own. For example, if you are writing a report about the Moon, and you copy and paste information from the web to your report without crediting the source, that is considered plagiarism, even if you edited it. However, if you were to go to the Moon and conduct experiments yourself, then come up with a report based on that, it is not plagiarism. To summarise, plagiarism is stealing other people’s work without crediting them and to avoid it, remember to cite the references or do the experiments yourself.

The second ethical dilemma is Commitment to Accuracy. It is how much the journalist cares to make sure that the correct information is passed to the public. For example, if a journalist does not really care whether the accurate information is passed on and only cares about his business, a story with the title of “Zombies chasing marathon runners”, which is the story about people dressed in zombie costumes encouraging runners to go faster, may be changed to “Zombies invade town”, in which the journalist mentions about the zombies eating people and nothing about the race. This would cause panic among the public and everyone would want to read the report.

The final ethical dilemma is bias. Bias means the inclination or prejudice for or against a person or a group. A journalist must not be biased against a group of people to make a report fair. If not, the journalist would give a one sided opinion of it. A journalist should keep their opinions to themselves and write it such that the audience would see the two sides of the report. For example, an election between Mr A and Mr B. Given the scenario that you support Mr A and you’re supposed to write about Mr B, if you are biased, you would say the bad things about Mr B and how Mr A is better. You should avoid being biased and be fair. 

Ethical Dilemmas- Irfan.

Hi I am Irfan and today I am presenting three ethical dilemmas. 

The first ethical dilemma I am choosing is plagiarism. Plagiarism is the act of claiming others work as ones own. It is essentially stealing. An example of plagiarism is if you are writing a research paper and you used another person’s data. This is wrong as you used their data without their permission without citing any sources. This is obviously a violation of the ethical standards. On the other hand, for example, if you sent a message to a friend on Facebook of an article from a web page, that is considered plagiarism too. But in this case, it is less severe than the previous scenario. So, is this right?

The next ethical dilemma i’m choosing is bias. Bias is choosing one side of the story and not revealing other points of views. This is wrong as journalists are only telling one side of the story. This will cause the audience to have a very narrow view of the issue and will not know the other side of the story. This is also bad as journalists could warp or manipulate the information so it is one sided. An example of this promoting a candidate for an election. A journalist could tell the good things in the article so to influence their audiences.

The last ethical dilemma is invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy is exposing someone and looking for information from someone when clearly stated that he or she does not want to. This is not only illegal, it is also ethically wrong. An example of invasion of privacy is for example a person already told you to stop trying to find information because it might be confidential. But, you still pursue information through your own means. This os definitely wrong and should not be done.