This article is beneficial for our entire class considering we are all now involved in campus media. I think a policy manual is a great idea and absolutely necessary for any type of campus media. If the rules and regulations are written down, there are no excuses why everyone shouldn’t be following them. It also makes firing someone much easier because there is no grey area of what is right and what is wrong. It is also true that an initial screening process would be helpful in campus media groups. Requiring all potential members to go through a screening process ensures that we would have a dedicated, hard working group.
This article also discusses ethical issues that campus media groups may face. Newspapers often have problems with plagiarism, but we should not have to worry too much about plagiarism at R-TV. What we do have to worry about at R-TV is the ethical content of the videos being streamed. We must ensure that there are no hurtful messages being portrayed such as racism or any other type of discrimination. Members who violate any ethical codes or any rules and regulations in the policy manual should be warned and then fired if it is a repeated action. Overall, discipline is key to a successful campus media group.
I think that's a good point, and having an editorial staff that discusses films before they're created and reviews before publication is a good way to do that sort of quality control. It's not about censorship, necessarily, but about a coherent community brand that has to be very careful about creating things that might have an effect far different than intended.
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