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4 - Truth, Objectivity, and Fake News

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Stephen J. A. Ward
Stephen J. A. Ward
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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I have argued that media ethics is not antithetical to the freedom to publish. Media ethics recognizes freedom as a necessary condition of a democratic press. Without freedom, a robust journalism cannot exist. Yet media ethics also values how that freedom is used. The last chapter considers one way that media freedom should be used – to promote dialogic democracy. Dialogic democracy is the ultimate aim of responsible news media.

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theories of truthrealismcommon sensefactualityobjectivitypragmatic objectivityconstructionismfake newsdetecting fake news
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Ethics and the Media
An Introduction
 , pp. 100 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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