Summary: The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

What if a reporter comes to you for an interview and you find your words are used against your values to advocate for a dictator? Articles are believed to be factual based by common sense because “fact” is commonly considered to be an essential component of journals. But theory doesn’t always match reality. Rebecca Skloot raises a lot of agendas through her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, including the problem of how journalism should be. In her book, some irresponsible journalists write their columns based on wrong and fake contents, or intentionally harm individual’s privacy. More media uses its power in wrong way, more victims of media happen and bear the pain. So journals must follow the ethical norm to prevent future victims …show more content…
Journalism has such function of raising public interest about specific problem. So it can work in good way, too though it violates moral minimum. The example is paparazzi. Paparazzi usually have negative image because their main job is to take someone’s lifestyle picture very secretly. Actually, Princess Diana is also said to be killed by car accident while she was trying to escape paparazzi. But paparazzi also can help healthy democracy. What does it mean? Paparazzi can do the job of monitoring politicians. According to an article, “French politicians needs ‘paparazzi democracy,” Jacques Terray, vice president of anti-corruption organization says, “These measures are absolutely necessary to make French politicians more transparent.” And one research paper abstract also says, “these processes profoundly affect the very meaning of the concept of representation and make political systems move from “Audience Democracies” to “Paparazzi Democracies”, where any citizen can get onto the stage of politics, digitally equipped to control the decision makers and curb their autonomy” (Trechsel). For that reason, journals irresponsible for the moral minimum also can contribute to social justice and stability, which can be said as ‘ethical journalism.’ I accept that this can be very true. So I agree that ethical journalism doesn’t necessarily follow the moral minimum. But the exception has to be restricted to politicians. Let’s talk about entertainment stars. They are not working for government unlike politicians. They are just famous and well known people whose privacy has to be protected. So strictly speaking, still ethical journalists has not to harm individual’s privacy, with the exception of

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The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Summary

Summary Of The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Summary