Abstract

RODRIGUEZ-BORGES, Rodrigo Fidel. Journalists in the Labyrinth: between Public Exemplariness and Market Coercion. Signo pensam. [online]. 2017, vol.36, n.71, pp.156-170. ISSN 0120-4823.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.syp36-71.plep.

Different investigations (Casero-Ripollés, 2014; Eberwein and Porlezza, 2014; Fengler et al., 2015; Gómez- Mompard, Gutiérrez-Lozano and Palau-Sampio, 2015a and 2015b; Mauri-Ríos and Ramón-Vega, 2015; and Maciá -Barber, 2014, among others) have pointed out the low public credibility of journalists and the progressive loss of quality of the information product. All of this, despite the fact that authorized voices, such as Habermas, consider the press to be the backbone of democracy. This text analyzes the available empirical evidence on these issues, while proposing to apply the influential analytical apparatus developed by MacIntyre in After Virtue. The purpose is to illuminate the conflict between the values of exemplarity, accountability, and quality -which should characterize journalism- and the coercions of the market that hinder the behavior of the media. Finally, we propose the elements of a minimum morality that can contribute to improve the social credit of journalists.

Keywords : journalism ethics; moral goods,; journalism,: MacIntyre; market.

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