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The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason About Ethics, L. Wilkins, R. Coleman. Laurence Earlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah, NJ. (2005) 164 pp., Paper, $19.95 Author: Timothy N. Walters Nationality: United Arab Emirates Source：?Public Relations Review?Volume 33 Issue 1As Gabriel Heater might have said, there’s good news tonight in the findings of The Moral Media. That’s because in an age when the profession itself is under stress, the authors are unequivocal when they stated that “this study demonstrates that journalists are both good and subtle moral thinkers.” 正如加布里埃尔所说的那样，今天晚上《媒体道德》的调查结果，可能会传来好消息。这是因为在这样一个时代，记者处于行业本身的压力下，作者明确指出当他们说“这项研究表明记者是一个优秀并且微妙的道德思想家”。 The authors concluded that much variation in journalists’ ability to make an ethical or moral decision was tied to education and to the journalistic domain of knowledge. Journalists, the authors noted, think better about the ethical problems connected with the journalism domain than they do about ethics in general. “Give journalists a choice in the sort of professional work they attempt, expose them to the rigors of investigative reporting, moderate the influence of work-based rules and religion, and journalists are capable of high-level ethical thinking.” 作者得出结论认为，记者的能力对记者作出伦理道德的决策有很大的影响作用，它与教育和新闻领域的知识紧密地联系在一起。作者指出，在一般情况下记者应该比他们目前所做的更好地将伦理道德问题与新闻领域联系在一起。“给记者一个选择，看他们是以他们正在进行的专业工作，暴露他们的调查报告的严酷，以工作为基础的规则和宗教的温和影响为先，还是以和记者高层次的道德思维能力为先” What also rings clear from the findings was that “the participants were not moral midgets. They understood both rights and responsibilities,” wrestling with the implications of their actions as well.” In doing so, participants often relied on a process that “many referred to as a best practices approach” to make their choices. Given time to think, professionals also reasoned on multiple dimensions including universal principles, legal ramifications, and notions of the craft. “These participants,” the authors noted, “were both able and subtle moral thinkers, a finding that shoul