The National Communication Association outlines principles for ethical communication including truthfulness, fairness, respect for others, and responsibility. They believe ethical communication enhances human dignity while unethical communication threatens individuals and society. The principles advocate for truth, diversity of ideas, and condemn intimidation and hatred, with communicators responsible for short and long-term consequences of their messages.
The National Communication Association outlines principles for ethical communication including truthfulness, fairness, respect for others, and responsibility. They believe ethical communication enhances human dignity while unethical communication threatens individuals and society. The principles advocate for truth, diversity of ideas, and condemn intimidation and hatred, with communicators responsible for short and long-term consequences of their messages.
The National Communication Association outlines principles for ethical communication including truthfulness, fairness, respect for others, and responsibility. They believe ethical communication enhances human dignity while unethical communication threatens individuals and society. The principles advocate for truth, diversity of ideas, and condemn intimidation and hatred, with communicators responsible for short and long-term consequences of their messages.
The National Communication Association outlines principles for ethical communication including truthfulness, fairness, respect for others, and responsibility. They believe ethical communication enhances human dignity while unethical communication threatens individuals and society. The principles advocate for truth, diversity of ideas, and condemn intimidation and hatred, with communicators responsible for short and long-term consequences of their messages.
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LESSON 2: COMMUNICATION ETHICS
The US National Communication Association (NCA, 1999) discusses their Credo for Ethical Communication, stating that, Ethical Communication is fundamental to responsible thinking, decision-making, and the development of relationships and communities within and across contexts, cultures, channels, and media.
Moreover, ethical communication enhances human worth and dignity by fostering
truthfulness, fairness, responsibility, personal integrity, and respect for self and others. They believe that unethical communication threatens the quality of all communication and consequently the well-being of individuals and the society in which we live.
Four Ethical Principles of Communication (NCA, 1999):
1. It advocates truthfulness, accuracy, honesty, and reason as essential to the integrity of
communication.
2. It endorses freedom of expression, diversity of perspective, and tolerance of dissent to
achieve the informed and responsible decision-making fundamental to a civil society.
3. It condemns communication that degrades individuals and humanity through distortion,
intimidation, coercion, and violence, and through the expression of intolerance and hatred.
4. Communicators should accept responsibility for the short- and long-term consequences of our own communication and expect the same of others.
Questions: 1. Why is it important to be ethical in communicating today? 2. Is honesty still a virtue valued today? Why or why not? 3. When you think of the president today, would you say that he has been communicating in an ethical manner? Expound. 4. Why do people communicate in an unethical manner? 5. What consequences can you think because of communicating in an unethical manner?
