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Kent Academic Repository Full text document (pdf) Citation for published version Pendry, Richard (2011) Sub-contracting newsgathering in Iraq. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 8 (3/4). pp. 14-20. ISSN 1742-0105. DOI Link to record in KAR http://kar.kent.ac.uk/63466/ Document Version Publisher pdf Copyright & reuse Content in the Kent Academic Repository is made available for research purposes. Unless otherwise stated all content is protected by copyright and in the absence of an open licence (eg Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher, author or other copyright holder. Versions of research The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record. Enquiries For any further enquiries regarding the licence status of this document, please contact: [email protected] If you believe this document infringes copyright then please contact the KAR admin team with the take-down information provided at http://kar.kent.ac.uk/contact.html ethical space The International Journal of Communication Ethics Vol.8 Nos.3/4 2011 ISSN 1742-0105 PAPERS t Jackie Newton: The knock at the door: Considering bereaved families’ varying responses to news media intrusion t Richard Pendry: Sub-contracting newsgathering in Iraq t Justin Schlosberg: Covering the cover-up: The Hutton report in UK television news t Peter Simmons: Competent, dependable and respectful: Football refereeing as a model for communicating fairness t Margalit Toledano and Levarna Fay Wolland: Ethics 2.0: Social media implications for professional communicators PLUS Views and reviews Publishing Office Aims and scope Abramis Academic, ASK House, Northgate Avenue, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 Communication ethics is a discipline that supports communication practitioners by 6BB, UK offering tools and analyses for the understanding of ethical issues. 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For non-members: Institutional subscription £200.00 Personal subscription £55.00 Delivery by surface mail. Airmail prices available on request or at the journal’s web site. www.communication-ethics.net Contents Editorial Page 2 Views Barry Turner on the ethical issues surrounding the representation of Osama bin Laden – both dead and alive Page 4 Jane Chapman and Nick Nuttall argue that contemporary ethical controversies cannot be understood without placing them in their historical context Page 5 Papers Jackie Newton: The knock at the door: Considering bereaved families’ varying responses to news media intrusion Page 7 Richard Pendry: Sub-contracting newsgathering in Iraq Page 14 Justin Schlosberg: Covering the cover-up: The Hutton report in UK television news Page 21 Peter Simmons: Competent, dependable and respectful: Football refereeing as a model for communicating fairness Page 33 Margalit Toledano and Levarna Fay Wolland: Ethics 2.0: Social media implications for professional communicators Page 43 Reviews Clifford Christians on Tom W. Cooper’s Fast media, media fast Page 53 Barnie Choudhury on Sheila Gunn’s So you want to be a political journalist? Page 55 Editorial Board Joint Editors Paul Jackson Manchester Business School Richard Lance Keeble University of Lincoln Mike Jempson Director, MediaWise Trust Donald Matheson University of Canterbury, New Zealand Cheris Kramarae University of Oregon; Centre for Shannon Bowen Syracuse University the Study of Women in Society Takeshi Maezawa Former Yomiuri ombudsman, Reviews Editors scholar/writer Mary Griffiths University of Adelaide John Mair Coventry University John Tulloch University of Lincoln Ian Mayes Former Guardian Readers’ Editor Tessa Mayes Investigative Journalist Editorial board members Jolyon Mitchell University of Edinburgh Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen Catholic University Fuad Nahdi Publisher Q-news; Producer Channel 4 Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Sarah Niblock Brunel University Raphael Alvira University of Navarra Kaarle Nordenstreng Tampere University Dusan Babic Media plan, Sarajevo Manuel Parez i Maicas Universitat Autonoma Porfiro Barroso Computense University of Madrid & de Barcelona Pontifical University of Salamanca, Madrid Ian Richards University of South Australia, Adelaide Jay Black Editor, Journal of Mass Media Ethics Simon Rogerson De Montfort University Antonio Castillo University of Western Sydney Lorna Roth Concordia University, Montreal Contact: ICE Administrator, Ruth Chadwick Lancaster University Karen Sanders San Pablo University, Madrid Katherine Hill, Faculty of Media, Business and Saviour Chircop University of Malta John Strain Unversity of Surrey Marketing, Leeds Trinity Clifford Christians University of Illinois-Urbana, USA Miklos Sukosd Central European University, Budapest and All Saints, Brownberrie Raphael Cohen–Almagor University of Hull Barbara Thomass Ruhruniversität Bochum Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 Tom Cooper Emerson College, Boston, MA Terry Threadgold Centre for Journalism Studies, 5HD, UK Deni Elliott University of Montana Cardiff University Published by: The Institute Chris Frost Liverpool John Moores University Stephen J. Ward University of British Columbia of Communication Ethics (www.communication-ethics.net) Ted Glasser Stanford University Brian Winston University of Lincoln and Abramis Academic Anne Gregory Leeds Metropolitan University James Winter University of Windsor, Canada (www.abramis.co.uk) Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam EDITORIAL BOARD & CONTENTS Copyright 2011-3/4. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. All rights reserved. Vol 8, No 3/4 2011 1 EDITORIAL ‘Press self regulation in the UK is as dead in the water as a wooden duck in an MP’s pond’ Picture the scene. One of the main streets of a tropical paradise – Guyana. An Old Colonial Club. Mid morning. I am riveted to my laptop and a live feed of an old man and a young buck testifying to a British parliamentary select committee. Why? Because today, 19 July 2011, 82-year-old Rupert Murdoch, the most powerful media magnate of our time, and his 39-year-old son and presumed heir James Murdoch are giving evidence to the House of Commons select committee on culture, media and sport hearing on phone hacking. The whole world is watching – even in Guyana. Rupert is playing the old man who cannot comprehend and is full of remorse (but with a young wife and several consigliere behind to support) whilst James (‘Mr USA MBA’) is playing the know-it-all and interpreter for the old codger. This is unmissable wall-to-wall viewing even in the tropical heat. ‘Hackgate’ or the phone hacking scandal pulled the Murdoch empire apart at the seams this summer. It could yet lead to its demise. What started as a small fire – News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and his private investigator Glenn Mulcaire being detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure in 2007 for hacking into the phones of the Royal