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Assignment:

1. Explain why Johnson and Johnson handling of the infamous Tylenol tampering case in 1982 remains one of the best examples of crisis communications in the two way symmetric model.

2. Explain two reasons why the presidential debate mentioned in the previous question was so important.

3. The u.s Supreme Court case killer v California 1973 established three criteria for determine if a piece of content is obscene. List those three criteria

4. Explain why ads for cigarettes and other tobacco products aren't allowed on television and other media anymore.

5. The 1952 campaign between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson was the first presidential campaign in which a large amount of people owned televisions. As a result, both candidates utilized television to get their message across. In five or more sentences, explain the television approaches for both candidates and why one candidate was more successful than the other.

6. The picture below appeared in a newspaper in La Salle, Illinois, in 2020. A state-operated nursing home for veterans in that city experienced a serious COVID-19 outbreak. A photographer for the newspaper stood outside of the nursing home and captured this image of a flag-wrapped body of a veteran being placed into a hearse.

Anytime a newspaper publishes a photo showing a dead body, even if it's completely covered like in this instance, newsroom leaders need to have a discussion about the ethics of running a photo like this.

I'd like you imagine that you are the editor of the La Salle newspaper and your photographer came back to the newsroom with this photograph. Apply the "Potter Box" method of ethical decision making (Page 304 of the textbook) as you decide whether to publish the photo. Write me an essay that takes me through your thought process as you go through the four steps. Be sure to provide a conclusion on hether you'd run the photo.