JOURNALISM AND MODERN ETHICS: TIM JUDAH AND ROY GUTMAN IN BOSNIA
JOURNALISM AND MODERN ETHICS: TIM JUDAH AND ROY GUTMAN IN BOSNIA

Summary/Abstract: The author looks not at the ethics of tolerance but at the ethics of intervention. In a casestudy of U.S. reporting of the Bosnian war, Keith Doubt explores the implications of two contrasting stances. Holding to the "ethic of ultimate ends" means seeking long-term good, even if one´s actions cause short-term bad; whereas holding to the "ethic of responsibility" means seeing any long-term ethical aim as irrational and unfeasible, and looking only to what is doable in the short term. The least bad stance, Doubt implies, is one of ultimate ends tempered by responsibility, i.e. a quest for justice tempered by an attempt to reduce the bad consequences that this may bring about.

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