Women on war : a textual analysis of four women war reporters
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In thinking about the ways in which war journalists approach their work, the ethics of how that journalism is performed is one of the most crucial considerations of how and why journalists report on war. I attempt in this thesis to research how four different female war correspondents -- Mary Roberts Rinehart, Martha Gellhorn, Ethel Payne, and Marie Colvin utilized frameworks that guided their ethical decision-making in their reporting over the course of the 20th century. I reviewed the topics and approaches that represented a Kantian approach, which was followed by the topics and approaches that represented an ethics of care approach and an approach that represented a philosophy of communitarianism. Military might served as a theme of analysis to discern the Kantian categorical imperative and communitarianism, while the suffering of civilians, the suffering of soldiers and the material destruction of property were used to discern a feminist ethic of care. A discussion of how each journalist reported on the deaths of civilians and soldiers was also used to discern a feminist ethic of care and a Kantian categorical imperative. This serves the purpose of expanding a practice of media ethics journalists can use.
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