Format and Layout

Format and layout of sections of Argument

6 sections – 6 1000 word mini essays

The main ideas behind the essay:

What has the Leveson enquiry highlighted? What will change if anything because of it, how does the media sector go on from here? How has this affected the role of investigative journalism for the future?

1.       Media vs. Media –

 

·         How do the media reflect, comment, regard, and publicise itself?

·         What image does it aim to produce about itself?

·         How it engages with the public?

·         Does it create interpretations to give to the public?

·         Media portrayal

 

2.       Media in the public eye – Ethics or protocol?

 

·         How has the industry changed its common day practises towards ethics over the years?

·         Past ethical concerns or occurrences? What has changed to force the Leveson Inquiry into the public eye, Public? Media itself?

·         Is there a reluctance to accept responsibility, or practice of the code of ethics religiously?

 

3.       Leveson; an inquiry or a media-political debacle

 

·         Media – public relationship

·         Was the inquiry a smokescreen to keep the overall image safe, the view of disdain from public to media, how strong is the relationship between media – politics, a technicality to protect THAT image

·         Protection of overall industry by uncovering and commenting on one major event publicly – relate to past occurrences

·         How did the inquiry effect the overall image – public surveys/polls

 

4.       Allegations vs. Truth

 

·         How has the Leveson Inquiry unfolded allegations, and turned them into the understood truth?

·         Can the media reporting on itself be held as truth, was the investigation fully independent of insiders, or could it have been submitted to cover ups?

·         How did particular aspects of what was being investigated come to be alleged and brought into the media spotlight – use examples

 

5.       A solution r a formality?

 

·         How was the inquiry into media ethics fundamentally motivated

·         Does it delve into a much wider social problem with journalism – link to N.O.W not one journalist

·         Can the media hold on to its roots of seeking the truth objectively?

6.       Investigative journalism – a practise, or an excuse?

 

·         Overview – lead in – Can you be truly investigative as a journalist without being intrusive

·         Where does that line between intrusive cross to being unethical?

·         How do ethics affect the journalistic notions of seeking the truth?

Focus on Leveson

·         How has the Leveson Inquiry changed the way investigative journalism can be practiced – will all investigative routes be seen as unethical? Will anything change at all?