In his latest blog on the ethics of journalism, George Pitcher considers how the philosophical school of consequentialism can save media groups time and money
When the pop-star Sir Cliff Richard won his case in the High Court in July against the BBC for invasion of his privacy, over a spurious child-abuse investigation, the subsequent media attention focused on two […]
In the final part of his examination of media ownership, George Pitcher concludes that social-media operators can’t operate in a moral vacuum
In last week’s blog, I traced a continuum of meanness between the old press barons, such as Lord Beaverbrook, and the new media owners, such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Both kinds were and are fabulously […]
In his third blog on the ethics of journalism, George Pitcher compares the personal morality of the media leaders of the past and present. Read his previous posts here and here.
Do media owners or leaders have a moral compass? And, if they do, does that compass have a magnetic north, in the sense of an ethical ideal to which […]
George Pitcher traces the philosophical roots of human character and argues that new technologies mean we have lost a capacity for journalists to develop their own practices and ethics.
This article by journalist George Pitcher is the first of a series looking at journalism and ethics.
A big problem with calling out journalism for a decline in its ethical standards is that it can imply there was ever a golden age in what used to be “Fleet Street”. It’s a romantic fantasy of Old Journalism, viewed through ink-tinted spectacles. […]
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