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Why media ethics matters: audience, influence and consequence

What changes ethically when you speak to a public audience: reach, unequal knowledge, trust and consequence, and why not being a journalist does not remove responsibility.

Reach, asymmetry and trust

Say at a dinner table that the old tannery in your town was run by a cruel family, and the claim lands in a context. The listeners know you, can ask what you mean, and will have half forgotten it by the weekend. Post the same sentence on an open account and nearly all of that context goes. Strangers read…

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