Discuss the impact of media ethical
issues on one current news issue in an 800 word essay.
This assignment involves an
in-depth analysis of the impact of one or more media ethical issue on current
news story of your choice. Selected topics should focus on a pertinent, political,
economic, social, cultural, health environmental issues or events. Students are
encouraged to decide on a specific context, i.e. local, regional or
international. Examples of topics could
include but are not limited to: Local elections; Canada’s policy towards on the
oil infrastructure e.g. Keystone Pipeline XL; Canadian perceptions on ISIS, Impacts
of financial crisis on education/other sectors; popular personality; Media
reporting and Ebola etc). Successful completion of the assignment will be based
on extensive research from news stories, commentaries, editorials and other
sources of information from the media.
Your essay should focus very specifically on one element of the story
and how coverage was affected by ethical issues. For example: Was the coverage fair and unbiased? Was an
important issue ignored or downplayed by the media? How important was this
ethical issue to the public and their decision making? What unknown factors
were missed by the media? What good story or stories could come out of what
went missing? (This is a partial list—consider other examples for your
assignment.)
No plagiarism
APA style
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