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With the democratisation and decentralisation of media in general, along with the emergence of independent online content, there's been a steep rise in audience polarisation. Alongside this, there has also been a drop in ethical oversight of content due to a confluence of factors, including a lack of fact-checking oversight and also a tendency to appeal to the cognitive biases of said polarised audience. Are there good reasons for individuals operating as independent journalists in this paradigm to adhere to ethical codes of practice? Or are such practices marred with certain challenges. Here we briefly discuss those challenges.

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Decentralisation of media, especially with online/new media - while seen as a generally positive development - has also resulted in a drastic rise in audience polarisation and also a drop in ethical standards in practice. Here we briefly discuss the ethical challenges and why journalistic ethics might still be important.

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Words like freedom and liberty, when associated with public access to information and plurality of opinions holds a near-universally positive connotation. These are even variables used to gauge the humans rights progress of various nations and societies. However, what often does get overlooked are the complex matrix of questions around ethics and ethical flexibility when it comes to the practice of journalism.

It goes without saying that even traditional journalism was never beholden to some ethical code in a manner similar to academic research. Nevertheless, there's always been considerable self-regulation and manifestation of ethical controls via certain expectations within the editing and fact-checking processes; it's often what's separated tabloid and gossip ...

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