Video and Multimedia

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Audio Resources

  • DOJ Prosecutor Investigates Interrogation Abuses
  • West Point Classes Focus on War Ethics
  • Media Coverage of Rape Trials
    Basketball star Kobe Bryant has been ordered to show up for a preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges. The defendant's celebrity makes this an unavoidable story, but there is also an ethical angle that pits the right to know against the right to privacy. Join host Neal Conan to discuss the media's difficult job of covering rape trials. 
     
  • Executions: A Pay-Per-View Event?
    Commentator Matt Miller says, he has an idea that will save Television executives from airing boring programs and serve a societal purpose. If death penalty fans consider capital punishment to be a deterrent, he says, airing executions should persuade people not to kill one another.

 

Video Resources

  • Hamster Wheel – Crime and the Media
    From The Chaser's new show that looks at news and the media on ABC TV: The Hamster Wheel. Chas Licciardello and Andrew Hansen examine how the current news media reports crime in an entertaining parody.
  • Journalist Shield Law: will it pass?
    University Minnesota media ethics and law professor Jane Kirtley explains why a federal shield law for journalists is a necessary part of democracy.
     
  • Sexual Exploitation of Women is a Crime/Video
    The American Psychological Association (APA) suggests that the proliferation of sexual images of girls and young women in the media is harming their self-image and development.  An APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls examined research papers covering the effect of all kinds of media content including television, music videos, magazines, video games, the Internet, movies, and music lyrics. They also looked at the way products are sold and advertised to young girls.  The report suggests that the volume of sexualized images has increased as more media content exists over a wider range of accessible technologies, leading to increased exposure and pressure on young girls. Attitudes of family members and friends can also increase the pressure.

 

Web Resources