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The Legitimacy And Moral Authority Of The National News Council (Usa), Erik Ugland
The Legitimacy And Moral Authority Of The National News Council (Usa), Erik Ugland
College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications
As an institution designed to resolve disputes between the public and the American news media and to assess the ethical standards of the mainstream media, the National News Council (1973-84) was, at least in the USA, a ground-breaking institution. This study suggests, however, that the Council's work was anything but revolutionary, and that it probably did more to entrench the received tenets of American journalism than to either validate or refashion them. By applying a conventional set of ethical standards in its resolution of disputes, by repeatedly emphasizing the First Amendment rights of the media respondents, by violating its by-laws …