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So far, I have focused on the psychological features of moral conduct – most analyses have regarded “internal” factors like autonomy and moral psychology that can be affected through education, training, and experiences in the right moral environments. However, formal regulation, both within news organizations and from external auditors, stand to complement the internal, psychological moral components in part by reinforcing them – e.g. in terms of creating moral environments in which “good” journalists thrive – and in part by adding external prescriptive components – more of a policing approach to the enforcement of ideals, rules and laws.
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Prior restraint is one such legalistic “gag” that has its modern centre in the Pentagon papers Case (New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971).
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Some journalism academics have proposed that more legal constraints should be instituted in countries like the United States because the unfettered freedom breeds irresponsible journalism usually in relation to defamation of public and private persons. Others think more legal restraints should be in place for making clear distinctions between editorial content (news and issue commentary) and advertising. See Bertrand, Claude-Jean. (2000). Media Ethics & Accountability Systems. Transaction Publishers: New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Quinn, A. (2018). Governance in Professional Journalism. In: Virtue Ethics and Professional Journalism . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01428-5_9
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