Exam 11: Media Ethics and Criminal Justice

Which of the following is not an unethical manipulation technique that may be used by the media?

Following the killing of Diallo by NYPD police in 1999,there was a shift in how the media stereotypically constructed police.Previous stereotypes of professionals and vigilantes were replaced by a new framing of police as civil rights ______.

Infotainment is defined as ______.

Using ______ to increase profits by selling more newspapers or to increase the salacious content of a publication are not ethically justifiable acts.

What assumptions are commonly deployed by the media to characterize women's experience of crime,especially crimes of violence deemed more newsworthy?

The ______ woman assumption assigns the categories of whores and vamps to women who are sexually available.

Recent studies have shown that girls who are victims of sexting privacy violations ______.

Victims of police violence are treated more sympathetically by the media than other murder victims because media accounts tend to present such incidents as a double victimization.

What is a distorted or unfair judgment or disposition caused by the values of a reporter,editor,or institution?

Which of the following is an inaccurate comment about what is more "newsworthy" in the media in regard to crime?

The predator principle says a person's liberty may justifiably be restricted to prevent harm that that person's actions would cause to others.

Define infotainment.

Define the do no harm principle.

Content analyses of crime stories reveal what Surette (2011)terms the law of ______,because the nature of crime,criminals,and victims portrayed in the media is generally the complete opposite of the pattern shown through official crime statistics or victim surveys.

Klaidman and Beauchamp suggest that ______ are critical in a profession such as journalism where stories are often produced in haste and under pressure of events.

Identify Hirschfield and Simon's three media stereotypes of police.

The media decides what is 'newsworthy,' and crime ranks ______ on that scale.

Media accounts that engender moral panics amplify deviance and function as ______.

In articles about use-of-force by police,Lawrence (2000)found that almost ______% of articles relied on official sources for their reporting.

Klaidman and Beauchamp (1987)hold the view that journalists ______ themselves,instead of believing the courts must first rule on what they want to publish.