INPUT / … / … / Broadcasted ethics: whose side are you on?

Television feeds a vast and avid public with a vivid and emotional diet of images. In a competitive climate, successful television means getting the scoop, delivering it first and grabbing the audience. What are the moral imperatives that must inform television makers? Should television become a conduit for the state apparatus, the police? IN the escalating spiral of world violence, does television abet the terrorist criminals? Should television censor itself? Is the use of the most intimate and sensitive details of personal lives acceptable? Are there limits, and what are they? Old questions n easy answers. CRIMEWATH UK is a controversial and immensely popular program in which the public is enlisted to help the police solve crimes. TERRORISM: THEIR WAR, OUR WAKNESS examines the moral dilemmas facing governments and the media in a world beset by terrorist violence. PRIVATE PRACTICES: THE STORY OF A SE SURROGATE is an explicit portrait of a young woman who uses her body and her skills to help cure two of her patients.