Ethical Issues

The Leveson inquiry:

News of the world: Newspaper

What is it about ?
The phone hacking of people who they were investigating for the news 
Mainly murder victims
they listen to voicemails 
listening to peoples personal secrets 
2006 

What was the main issue ?
Invasion of privacy 
Hacking 
They taught people to hack 

Are these legal or ethical issues ?
legal issues - as they broke the law 
Ethical issues - as people 

Was the law broken ?
The law was broken as they hacked into peoples phones 


How do you know the difference ?
the difference is that what they were doing was against the law making it illegal and not 


An ethical issue in media is something that instead of going against the law it instead the moral idealisms of what people consider acceptable and not acceptable to the majority for people living in modern society such as hacking voicemails giving people a false sense of their kids being alive 



Ethics in media is about doing the right/moral thing. something may be legally correct. but is it right thing to do 

Considering the ethical impact of a media product is important to ensure the product does not cause offence or bother the using/consuming it. 

Some of the areas that effect ethics in media are: 
  • Code of practise 
  • Privacy rights 
  • Public interest 
  • levels of violence 
  • Representation of groups 



Burger 
- Took vegetables out 
- not healthy eating 

Cream cheese 
-Lost baby  
- Harmful stereotype 

Barclays 
- Police shoot black people 
- Causes offense to people who has anaphylactic shock 


ASA - Advertising standards agency 
OFCOM - tv, radio, and telecommunications 

Specific 
BBFC - film 
VSC - gaming 
PRS - music 
IPSO - newspaper and magazines 
W3C - internet 
RAJA - radio 

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