Seventeen Magazine Case Summary

There are several factors to consider when examining the situation of publishing the Rolling Stone UVA rape story. The three theories used to examine more closely the ethical decision the editor had when publishing the story are Kantian perspective, virtue ethics and the Utilitarianism approach, as well as the pros and cons of the situation.

For as long as media has been around, women have been sexualized in order to sell products. It’s a known fact by brands and consumers alike: sex sells. No one can deny this fact, it’s everywhere. Turn on your radio, you’ll hear songs describing women as nothing more than pieces of meat, objects to look at. Turn on your televison and you’ll see advertisements for inherentlyunsexual products like beer or a burger, but it will accompanied by a half naked woman. Walk into any convenience store, and you will find half a dozen magazine with airbrushed models in bikinis, some of these models so young that they cannot even drive. At what age does it become okay to start sexualizing women, or is it never okay? Some would say the age of legality, which is eighteen, but young Hollywood starlets such as Kylie Jenner and Ariel Winter were victims of the media’s obsession with sexualization before they even turned sixteen. It is an understatement to say that the media has gone too far in many instances. It’s as if as soon as girls reach the age of puberty, they fair game to the media as objects of scrutiny and sexualization. It has gone from bad to worse. The way the media sexualizes women, especially famous teenage girls, is wrong and has

In the case dealing with Jessica Williams v. The state of Nevada. Jessica is convicted of killing six teenagers with her car on March 19, 2000 at 1:40 pm on highway I-15. Jessica is convicted of six counts with a prohibited substances in her blood. The prohibited substances include marijuana and ecstasy. Jessica says that she fell asleep at the wheel, which resulted in the accident. The victims were six teenagers who were assigned to pick up trash on the road by the Clark County Juvenile Services (Knapp, 2000). The victims include Anthony Smith (14), Scott Garner Jr. (14), Alberto Puig (16), Rebecca Glicken (15), Malena Stoltzfus (15), and Jennifer Booth (16) (Ritter, 2001). Jessica’s blood was found to

The fact that a person would use being published in a magazine to gain a reader’s trust is very irresponsible and it actually hurts their credibility. Magazines are not viewed as an academic source and for this reason most professors do not allow magazines to be a source for their students when writing academic papers. If the article had been published in a more serious book or setting, then the reader would trust the content a lot more rather than being skeptical of the content. Authors can even state ‘facts’ that are not necessarily the whole truth in order to gain the reader's trust which is why logos can be

Patient Amy Ford has come into the office complaining of abdominal pain, increasing amounts of diarrhea and has been dehydrated. Amy is a very active 30-year-old with no children and travels all over the United States and stays at camp grounds in her RV. Amy has said that she previously bathed in a nearby lake at her camp site and has poor hand hygiene. Amy also enjoys hiking and traveling to different State land marks. Her overall health has been very good until approximately a month ago when the symptoms started. Her family history has no signs of heart disease or canner. She has come to the doctors because she thinks that something is wrong with her stomach or intestines.

A solution is to empower young girls in controlling the effect that social media and advertisements can have on them, rather than simply putting the blame on companies who want to sell their products. If we know that many advertisements using models have a tendency to photoshop their photos, we should pay attention to reality and know that we do not have to be like them since it is not their true body

An editor and writer should have a bond where they protect each other, because they both represent the same company under the same umbrella. With anything there is a limit to where too much of anything will become a problem. It will start to get to a point where defending the writer will compromise the job of the editor, then the editor has to go back to there code of ethic on where to draw the line. If you both are out of a job then you are no help to each other. There should be standards and rules that apply with the editor and writer, even though rules are meant to be broken, but there are some lines that you do not cross or rules that you do not break. If they are broken then the individual knows they will be punished to the highest degree.

Teen fashion made international news in January 2015 after hundreds of people appalled by the choice of baseball tees available online started a movement to change the print on products. The controversy spread quickly after an Indiana woman launched an online petition demanding Ebay and Etsy to remove shirts that displayed Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter (Yahoo). The online retailers removed the product after the petition claiming that the product’s display of the note glamorized mental illness received approximately four-hundred signatures, but unfortunately photographs of the shirt modeled by underage girls are still available online (Yahoo). While oppositions to the petition have claimed that it is just a shirt and has no societal impact, the

The article titled Seventeen Magazine vows not to alter images, to celebrate every kind of beauty is about Seventeen Magazine using Photoshop to alter the models body image and a 14-year-old named Julia Bluhm petitioning Seventeen Magazine to stop using Photoshop. I chose this article because it had the similar themes to the book the Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The Uglies is about a dystopian world that makes people ‘pretty’ when they turn sixteen. The themes in the book and magazine deal with changing one’s body image, the dangers of changing one’s body image, and the positive side of the changing one’s body image for the benefit on the society.

3. Ellen started a blog to protest the CEO's bonus noting that no one below director has gotten a raise in two (2) years and portraying her bosses as "know-nothings" and "out of touch."

Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe Kardashian are being sued by Hillair Capital Management over their “Kardashian Beauty” makeup line. The Keeping Up With The Kardashians stars allegedly failed to tweet about and generate buzz of their products, which caused the line to go bust and cost the company up to $180 million in lost profits.

To stop the negative impact of Photoshop on teenagers, photographers should only use Photoshop for the good of photography and not to give false images of the social norm. In opposition, many would state that Photoshop provides beauty and promotes financial in marketing. The primary objective is to get money for false looks. American culture is highly obsessed with beauty. Everywhere you go there are advertisements and misleading images. Whether it’s for models or food alterations are used to sell the image. Models appearances on these photos are admired and sought after from the society. Jessica Walker stated in an interview “I do not think Photoshop is bad I use it to make my photos better, but I don’t like what people use it for...The user and its intentions are bad not the program itself”(Walker). The issue is defined as the images being presented giving a false perception. These photos have been tampered with by professionals, in which they think that their model is what society wants to see. Both genders are being affected by the medias view of body image. However, women and teenagers changed the most. Teenage girls have continuously been presented with images that they are supposed to look like, which is unrealistic images. Photoshop causes some teens to have self-esteem issues and many other disorders.

Ethical dilemmas can cause a magazine quite a bit of grief. It is up to each staff and journalist to abide by a code of ethics, whether it is personal or outlined by his or her job, to maintain integrity. According to chapter 13, “The American Society of Magazine Editors, American Business Media, and Society of Professional Journalists offer ethical guides for consumer and business magazines.” All stress the concept of accountability and minimizing harm.

Darden Graduate Business School administration was concerned with the school’s reputation due to the poor quality of work produced by the club. Therefore, the club was endangered of being disbanded unless there was an improvement in client satisfaction. To improve client satisfaction and OCI reputation, the leaders of OCI analyzed issues within the club and proposed initiatives to turn the club in the right direction of productivity.

The New York Times Magazine follows the same standards and ethics set by its parent company, The New York Times. “The core purpose of The New York Times is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. Producing content of the highest quality and integrity is the basis for our reputation and the means by which we fulfill the public trust and our customers’ expectation,” as stated in their core purposes. “The paper regrets every error, but it applauds the integrity of a writer who volunteers a correction of his or her own published story. We correct our errors explicitly as soon as we become aware of them. We do not wait for someone to request a correction.” From there, three main aspects are