Entertaining Ethics: Lessons in Media Ethics from Popular Culture - Paperback

by Chad Painter (Author), Lee Wilkins (Author)

An accessible and imaginative approach to ethical theory, this book examines core concepts like truth-telling, loyalty, privacy, public service, media economics, social justice, advocacy, and accountability through the lens of popular films, television shows, and music.

Author Biography

Chad Painter is assistant professor of Communication at the University of Dayton, where he teaches journalism and mass communication courses. He studies media ethics with emphases on the depiction of journalists in popular culture, the alternative press, and diversity studies. He is the co-author Media Ethics: Issues and Cases. Currently, he serves as the teaching chair the AEJMC Media Ethics Division. Prior to academia, he worked as an editor and reporter for the Columbus, Ohio, alternative newsweekly The Other Paper, and in corporate communications for JPMorgan Chase. Lee Wilkins is Professor Emerita at Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. At Wayne State, she chaired the Department of Communication. She taught at the University of Missouri for 23 years, winning the campus' highest teaching award and then being named a Curator's Distinguished Teaching Professor. During her time at Missouri, she was a weekly panelist and later host of Views of the News, a program that examined the news media, which aired on public radio station KBIA. She has also worked as a newspaper reporter and editor.