Why a Global Journalism Ethics?
Historically, journalism and journalism ethics have been parochial. Journalism ethics was developed for a journalism of limited reach, whose public duties were assumed to stop at the border. As a result, in times of conflict, patriotism as love of nation trumped other journalistic values such as critical truth-telling. The sufficiency of this parochial ethics has been undermined by the globalisation of news media and the global connectedness of all regions of the world. The facts are familiar. Media corporations are increasingly global enterprises. Technology gives journalists the ability to gather information from around the world. News reports, via satellite or the internet, reach distant countries. With global impact comes global responsibilities. The violence that rippled around the world after the publication of the cartoons of Mohammed in a Danish newspaper is one example of global impact. As Ali Mohammed’s cartoons show, our world is not a cozy McLuhan village. News media link d
