No doubt about it; we aren't seminarians
With all the talk -- criticism, actually -- about the ethics of journalism and journalists, two academics, Lee Wilkins of the University of Missouri and Renita Coleman of LSU, have written a book about it titled "The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics."
At the risk of sounding self-serving, I offer this excerpt about the book from Michael Miner's column, just to stir things up: "Journalists were given a 'P score,' which measured the percentage of the time they were guided by 'universal ethical principles.' Their average score was 48.68 -- placing them well behind seminarians and philosophers and slightly behind doctors and medical students. Yet journalists were ahead of every other group Wilkins and Coleman found P scores for.
"In descending order they were dental students, nurses, graduate students, undergrads, accounting students, veterinary students, enlisted navy men, orthopedic surgeons, adults in general, business professionals, business students, high school students, and prison inmates. At rock bottom, with a P score of 20.0, were junior high school students."
Who says we're sophomoric?
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I want to know where the publishers and the Op-Ed writers placed.
Posted on March 5, 2005 4:46 PM
Oh, I'm sure they were categorized as philosophers, Anna. :)
Posted on March 6, 2005 8:25 AM
egads - philosophers on the take - what a thought...
Posted on March 9, 2005 2:59 AM