Includes index

Chapter 1. Cases and moral systems: an essay / Deni Elliott --
Chapter 2. When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting? / Theodore L. Glasser --
The doctor has AIDS / Deni Elliott --
Taste in photojournalism: a question of ethics or aesthetics? / Lou Hodges --
Reporters and confidential sources / Steve Weinberg --
Rodent wars and cultural battles: reporting hantavirus / JoAnn M. Valenti --
Too many bodies, too much blood: a case study of the family sensitive newscast movement / Bill Silcock --
Nine days in Union: the Susan Smith case / Sonya Forte Duhe --
Handling the media in times of crisis: lessons from the Oklahoma City bombing / Jon Hansen --
Chapter 2. The plagiarism factory / John P. Ferre --
Public relations' role in the Alar scare / Philip Patterson. Con't. --
A reporter's question: propriety and punishment / Stanley Cunningham --
Arthur Ashe and the right to privacy / Carol Oukrop --
Computers and the news: a complicated challenge / Karon Reinboth Speckman --
Honor to die for: Newsweek and the Admiral Boorda case / Philip Patterson --
Competition, deadlines and the mistreatment of Richard Jewell / Greg Lisby --
Victims and the press / Robert Logan --
The David Duke candidacy: fairness and the Klansman / Keith Woods --
Whose abuse of power: the Seattle times and Brock Adams / Lee Wilkins --
The gym shoe phenomenon: social values vs. marketability / Gail Baker Woods --
Denver's Rocky Flats: the role of the alternative press / Lee Wilkins. Con't. --
Terrorist use of the news media, news media use of terrorists / Jack Lule --
Union activism and the broadcast personality / Stanley Cunningham --
Ms. magazine--no more ads! / Philip Patterson --
A salesperson's dilemma: whose interests come first? / Charles H. Warner --
"Bonding" announcements in the news / JoAnn Byrd --
Turning off the light: The San Antonio newspaper war / Fred Blevens --
Calvin Klein's kiddie porn ads prick our tolerance / Valerie Lilley --
Punishing the messenger: the tobacco industry and the press / Steve Weinberg --
Problem photos and public outcry / Jon Roosenraad --
Digital manipulation of photos with new computer technology / Shiela Reaves --
Military censorship of photographs / Paul Lester --
Faking photos: is it ever justified? / James Van Meter. Con't. --
"Above the fold": balancing newsworthy photos with community standards / Jim Godbold ; Jannelle Hartman --
"Film at ten": handling graphic video in the news / Sonya Forte Duhe --
Horror in Soweto / Sue O'Brien --
Digital sound sampling: sampling the options / Don E. Tomlinson --
Ethics on the internet: abiding by the rules of the road on the information superhighway / Bruce Lewenstein --
Cry wolf: Time magazine and the cyberporn story / Karon Reinboth Speckman --
Filmmaking: looking through the lens for truth / Kathy Brittain McKee --
The Madonna and the web site: good taste in newspaper online forums --
Hate radio: the outer limits of tasteful broadcasting / Brian Simmons. Con't. --
How to remember Malcolm X / Dennis Lancaster --
Beavis and Butthead: the case for standards in entertainment / Philip Patterson --
Schindler's List: the role of memory / Lee Wilkins --
Joe Klein and the authorship of Primary colors: stranger than fiction / Lee Wilkins --
Thinking about ethics with film / Lee Wilkins --
Novel ideas about ethics / Steve Weinberg --
From the past: historical glimpses of media ethics / Susan Willey.