Dilemmas in the Professional Media
(Lecture/speech delivered by Violeta M. Gloria on Dilemmas in the Professional Media for Communication Studies 109 students as part of the thematic discourse on Journalism Ethics, Ram Café, Mindanao State University-Main Campus, Marawi city; October 1, 2013) The world is in disarray. There are varied forms of conflict: controversial social issues, corruption within our bureaucracy, increasing poverty (disparity of social classes), wanton destruction of ecology, rapid influence of libertarian practices that challenged norms and customs, and scaling competition within media (both as a profession and as a business institution) amid rising number of victims of summary execution with impunity [1] . We also confront cultural fragmentation and waning multicultural identities, hence the spatter of ideologies and influences unfortunately result in a cacophony of indifference... which situate pluralism at a misnomer [resulting to] e.g. organizational browbeating and political big...