Cyclone Debbie Ethical Issues

Natural disasters may lead to many ethical challenges that are different from normal medical practices. Disasters can vary when comparing to their time, place and extent. Therefore, ethical questions may not always have such simple solutions. Ethical values and principles in every aspect of health-care are very important. Reviewing legal and organizational regulations, developing health-care related guidelines, and disaster recovery plans, establishing on-call committees as well as an adequate in-service training of health-care workers for ethical capability are of the most important of steps. It is only by making efforts before disasters, that ethical challenges can be minimized in disaster responses.

Thussu (1998) said that it is a journalists duty to explain the information they were providing and not “indulge in cheap ‘event journalism.’

In today’s day and age, mass media has completely changed the way in which we consume news. The truthfulness of the millions of blogs and web pages makes it hard to trust what is true and what is not. Newspapers are often an overlooked form of news, which is surprising considering that it is a accurate, curated source of media. What sets newspapers apart from all the countless blogs and web pages is the set of ethics that the reporters and editors are required to follow. In State of Play Cal McCaffrey, a reporter for the Washington Globe, did not act in accordance to the code of ethics. McCaffrey knowingly broke the law whilst trespassing, clearly knew McCaffrey had a conflict of interest, and unethically recorded someone while falsely promising anonymity.

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Emergency disaster situations can be defined in three ways accidental, natural, or wilful. An accidental disaster refers to an event which is totally unexpected such as a house fire started by an electrical fault. Similarly, an illustration of a natural disaster would be the recent earthquakes which took place in Christchurch, NZ between September 2010 and February 2011 that resulted in devastating and far reaching consequences for the country. Foremost in many minds when recollecting a wilful disaster would be the terror attacks of 9.11 in the USA. A disaster of this magnitude has never been experienced during peace time in our lifetime. This essay will examine three different aspects of rescue management procedure where reports detailing disaster and emergency response must be studied to understand and improve our handling of rescue operations.

Introduction: The modern world is constantly reaching for new information; something to distract people from their own dull lives. Society will believe nearly anything that is presented in a news article, no matter how absurd. ‘Breaking news’ seems to be shared constantly and is readily available at any given moment. Nevertheless, this rapid swarm of new stories and facts begs the question - how reliable are these news outlets that are providing coverage of events around the world? Do news sources invest time and work into their reports, or do they release reports teeming with bias and unproven facts solely for money and satisfactory ratings? The massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics shocked the world and its citizens, and newspapers

The field of journalism is a necessity because there is always a story to narrate, and ultimately history that needs to be documented. Many fail to recognize the importance of journalist, their roles to communities nationwide and the life threatening risks the job may acquire. We often perceive the pros of journalism which is a good thing, but we tend to neglect what journalists may have to undergo to acquire the right facts and different parts of an important story. Journalists around the world have encountered dangerous moments in their careers where they had to report on stories that demanded integrating themselves into a threatening situation such as war. This statement definitely holds true to Journalism in Liberia during the civil war.

Finally, under your Reckless Reporting category in your article, I understand that reporters have to stay close but far from the source—in this case, the water and debris—in order to get a good writing page down. Gathering information should not be as hard for you to have to rely on news sources to write your own article and journals. Powerful stories should bring the readers in, likewise as to newscasts. When showing stories of the victims, it shows (and tells) how much information you got, how well you presented it, and finally, how determined you were to find great research to tell the world about.

When there is a disaster like this, the media expects a lot of looting, lack of response to the disaster, victims in need of rescue, and even death. But if the media

This paper’s main focus is to answer the question: “What guidance have the courts offered to help determine the point at which a journalist wrongly goes beyond reporting newsworthy information, instead reporting private, embarrassing facts that invade a person’s privacy?” To answer this question, history of the legal system, Supreme Court and past precedents must be understood and taken into consideration. The definition of privacy as well as its history in regards to its relationship with news and journalism must be understood. To do so, many Supreme Court cases will have to be taken into consideration, such as Galella v. Onassis, Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, Florida Star v. B.J.F. and Wilson v. Layne. To better understand the future, past cases will be crucial to be studied and acknowledged.

Journalists (reporters) should just observe news events as they happen; they should not interfere in any way. I agree on most parts with this statement and disagree on some. The reporters are at the event to report them. For example, the wild fires in Gatlinburg, it is the reporters job to get the information out to the people watching the channel, and should not interfere. The firefighters and other professionals will handle it. The reporters could help in a way. If a reporter was to interfere or offer help, they could tell others if a person needs help if they are trapped in wreckage due to a disaster. The main priority for the reporter is to get the information and give it to

Media partnership is another critical assumption that is used in an emergency situation. The media takes the responsibility of giving information to the public, as well as receiving information from them too. Thus, any emergency response team must work together with the media to give information that is particularly accurate and timely to avert situations that aggravate tension. Emergency managers must have an understanding of the needs and requirements of the media and the value that they come with in emergency response situations (Haddow & Haddow, 2013).

Sounds easy so far, until a judgement call needs to be made about whether to report on the events or concerns. According to Roy Clark in “The Pyramid of Journalism Competence,” if this problems arises then one must think which story holds more importance. In the lower level of the pyramid he also says, that becoming a storyteller is important not just reporting the information, but the experience. Critical thinking can assist with this. Evidence should be provided in the story in order to show the reader our story is accurate.

Have you ever thought “Let me leave from TV!” in your life? Do you remember the day when Japan was severely hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011? In that time, in Japan every TV programs stopped broadcast of entertainment shows, such　as TV variety shows, and then they had only the news about the Great East Japan Earthquake for a while. It happened not only after the disaster but also, after the 9/11 attacks; after a disaster, the media tends to have extensive coverage that is focus on almost just a disaster. (Houston, Pfefferbaum, & Reyes, 2008) I have recognized how grin the disaster was, but the extensive coverage was so disgusting for me, and it made the feeling “Let me leave from TV, I do not want to receive further information!” Based on this experience, I took on an opinion that media should take a hard look at how media should be after a disaster because too much coverage that focus on a current impact disaster after a disaster adversely effects on relay transferring information, and mental health, economy.

While investigative journalism used to be associated with lone reporters working on their own with little, if any, support from their news organizations, recent examples attest that teamwork is fundamental. Differing kinds of expertise are needed to produce well-documented and comprehensive stories. Reporters, editors, legal specialists, statistical analysts, librarians, and news researchers are needed to collaborate on investigations. Knowledge of public information access laws is crucial to find what information is potentially available under "freedom of information" laws, and what legal problems might arise when damaging information is published. New technologies are extremely valuable to find facts and to make reporters familiar with the complexities of any given story. Thanks to the computerization of government records and the availability of extraordinary amounts of information online, computer-assisted reporting (CAR)