A Study Of Media Ethical Dilemma In American Journalist Theme Films

Taking American movies as textbooks,this paper mainly studies the problem of media ethics dilemma.By counting and classifing,it chooses the most common media ethical dilemma in the three types of American films,and focuses on six representative films.This paper sums up the gains and losses of the film's dilemma,and summarizes the principles and models of the media ethics dilemma.Then it analyses the enlightenment brought by them.Finally,this paper links the problem of media ethical dilemmas with reality,and explores the game between the four forces of news,politics,economy and film.This paper mainly applies the methods of literature analysis and text analysis.After the statistical analysis of American news films,the article finds that the ethical dilemma in the film includes three categories:"professional expectation and social expectation","news organization and information source","social attributes and commercial attributes".In these three categories,the most common subdivisions are:"maintaining rational objective and having human feelings","protecting anonymous information and telling the truth","maintaining public interests and guaranteeing commercial interests".In this paper,the three types of subdivision are analyzed,and six representative films are selected to be read.And the media ethical dilemma is deeply analyzed and explored.Through the analysis,it is found that,although these films have deduced the choice results,they do not discuss the best choice of the predicament and do not explain the choice basis and process.Therefore,combining the film and theory,the article summarizes the principles and the choice mode of media ethical dilemmas.The article believes that to ensure the rational and comprehensive choice,the media and practitioners should uphold the pure reporting motivation and conduct full interaction.What's more,this paper also finds that there is a change process in the media's ethical dilemmas.From this we can see the changes in the relationship between politics,economy,film industry and journalism in the United States.From 1950s to 1980s,politically,American journalism was strictly controlled by the government.Economically,it was faced with the centralization of media ownership and the tendency to entertain the news industry.Therefore,the industry began to emphasize the theory of media social responsibility and urged the media to shoulder social responsibilities.After the 1980s,the government's deregulation,the serious erosion of Commerce and the continuous development of technology have brought about new changes in the production practice of the news industry,and also brought more ethical confusion.The film focuses on the imbalance between media public services and business interests.And the industry appealed to the media to undertake public service functions.