ETHICS SEARCH IN AFRICA AND THE POTENTIAL OF PERSONAL MORALS
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Introduction
One profound characteristic of the global discourse in the search for
acceptable ethics for journalism practice is its imperativeness. There are a
few contradistinctive arguments against the need for a functional ethical
guide. Debates on the requisite standard of achievement have intensified
as scholars struggle to assert perspectives that transcend geographic and
cultural barriers. Well heard in these debates are those voices that proceed
from the neoliberal epistemic structures. Their vantage positions brought
about, among others, by their pioneering forays into media practice,
financial strength and global influence have created preponderant
positions which some opine as the archetype. But Pal and Dutta (2008,
2008b) discuss globalization from below with respect to the subaltern
voices that are located at the receiving end of global inequalities and who
are generally situated in Africa and other developing areas of the world.
Scholars representing these subaltern voices of the global South have also
evinced their ethical perspectives which they think should not be ignored.
Therefore, it has been an epistemological contest between the mainstream
neoliberal actors and their subaltern counterparts in an intellectual
struggle that has remained unabated even as theoretical underpinning for
global ethics remains inconclusive...
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H Social Sciences (General)