Thinking Of Journalistic Ethics In The War In Iraq

The concept of global village is bringing both collision and combination of the different value views for all kinds of cultures. Therefore, the moral problem of today is more markedly presented in the face of the researchers than any other ages in the history. News morality, which generally means the professional ethics in news undertakings, is not only the assurance that the news media constantly accord with the social progress, but also the prerequisite that the news activities totally follow the civilization process. However, this field is always excluded from the field of vision for the main stream of its categorized subject because it is traditionally not attached enough importance to, and it features itself with polysemy and complicacy.This paper, with the Iraq war as its time background and typical case, mainly makes use of the basic theories to discuss various kinds of moral problems reflected in the medium activities. For one thing the media of China and the west will be appraised for the stands and the performances in the Iraqi battlefield, and for another there will be analyses of the ethics predicament and the moral contradiction in news activities. Moreover, this paper will extend its reach to the theory of the upper source and to the practice of the lower one. The moral problem in Iraq war is just a starting point or saying a direction, but the thinking of it is far more than this. From this paper it is particularly expected to conclude some game rules conforming to the times, or even just some academic core which the game rules need depend on. Thus, the consequent expectation is to make a contribution on a series of significant issues concerning medium ecology, medium decision as well as news legislation.Hopefully this paper is not confined to the traditional point of view from the textbooks, but is written to express the author's own opinion with totally new ideology and distinctive angle of view. Besides, the author makes an effort to free this paper from any dull cliche, and also tries pursuing his own writing style with the personalized language.