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Unethical behaviour is also depicted on the decision by the CBS Corporation to avoid the airing of Wigand’s interview on the 60 Minutes Show (Taylor and Francis 176). As a media corporation, CBS acted unethically to protect their interests at the expense of the ailing public. One possible solution to the dilemma that the CBS Corporation faced is that the corporation

During the 1950’s, music was evolving. Rock and roll’s growing popularity, the rise of middle-class prosperity, the beginning of the teenage era, the dominance of inexpensive 45 rpms, and the growth of radio stations led to changes in music and the way it was marketed, promoted, and distributed (Hutchinson, 2015). While some of these changes were necessary and positive, others were damaging and downright illegal. As such, the payola scandals came into play.

With technology growing more and more each day, it is no surprise that the music industry is transitioning to rely more and more on online sales. However, problems can arise from this when artists are taken advantage of by people who illegally download their music off of the internet for free. When one college radio host publically stated that she illegally downloaded her music, a professor by the name of David Lowery saw a problem with this and decided to speak up about it. He wrote a letter addressed to the college radio host, Emily, called “Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered”. With this, he also addresses the general public and calls them to make a change in their music buying, or lack thereof, habits. He explains that illegally downloading music is not a harmless task and we must understand the effects that it has on the artists as well as the music industry as a whole. While Lowery has strong uses of ethos, logos, and pathos, his conversational and

M2(Unit 37) - Assess the social implications of business ethics facing a selected business in its different areas of activity

Payola infringed upon the American public, and their right to songs of merit, and popularity filling the air waves. The sheer prevalence among disc-jockeys and others in the music industry just solidifies the sordidness of manufacturing a top song by paying the way for it to land on playlists. Scandals follow this practice, and traditional payola deserved its misdemeanor status. However, the times have changed, and while it is only fitting to disagree with traditional payola as a corruption of meager listening choices, the years have not been kind to radio.

In our mind, we consider those who make a living out of crushing dreams of others as monsters, yet Simon Cowell just does that. This unit is about someone who is leaving a legacy and this paper’s purpose is to prove that Simon Cowell is indeed leaving a legacy. Cowell is well known for his brutally honest personality and bringing many contestants to tears after auditioning for him as well as partnering up and creating American Idol, and Pop Idol. Cowell struggled throughout most of his early career before getting the reputation he has now. From the very beginning Cowell has proved he’s different, and that continues to be true whilst comparing Cowell to other judges on other shows.

CBS Corporation’s decision to back out of airing Wigand’s interview regarding the tobacco industry was portrayed as a decision based on self-interest. 60 Minutes is a whole show based on finding and airing information that the public would not otherwise see. However, CBS Corporation made a decision to censor their investigative news program in fear that a threatened B&W multibillion-dollar lawsuit over the Wigand interview would kill a pending sale of the network to Westinghouse Electric. That sale was expected to earn top CBS executives millions from stock options. In other words, to protect their financial interests, this ethical conflicting decision was made.

From a young age Blumenthal had aspirations to start a business. Both of his grandparents were entrepreneurs and credits them for demonstrating to him it is possible to run a business. At 8 years old he wanted to start a dried fruit and beef jerky stand in his neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. After convincing his parents to buy him a food dehydrator, he began his first business venture. He started to make the food but realized that the time and cost were not worth the effort. Although it did not succeed, he gained knowledge for his future goals.

Hurwitz states that it is all about the way people feel and concert attendees having a good time (Thomas-Lester, 2009). However, he has decided from a business perspective to only select bands that he is sure will sell tickets. This would seem to insinuate that bands that don’t sell tickets could not provide attendees with a “good time”. As a result, Hurwitz is compromising his old ethic of trying to present progressive music that would illicit a reaction from its listener, as he did when he was younger. I think this raises an ethical issue for Hurwitz if his values are actually primarily focused on providing quality entertainment. To some extent he is still doing this, but it is being derailed by his want to consistently make money on the

I agree to some extent with Adorno and Horkheimer’s views on popular music and culture industry. I agree that popular music is indeed standardized and it has a uniform pattern which the music industry has been following for the last decade or so. However, I don’t agree with their claim that consumers are made to accept the exploitative situations they are in. Adorno once said that popular music is standardized, even when it’s made to be unique.

I was surprised to see this article in The Financial Times. But after I analyzed it more the profile piece made sense being published here. Dave Grohl was in fact being profiled for his business sense. Multiple times Carl Wilkinson showed the audience Grohl’s business prowess. Really it’s a great business profile piece; the photos just help to prove how smart Grohl really is.

Adorno’s theories have much been misunderstood, and have enforced the belief that the music industry is this great corporate consumer eating machine. On the contrary however, Ardono does not accuse the music industry of spreading a false consciousness or a great deception, but that it has identified what the masses require and focused on these (Scott 2009).

ACMA acknowledges the delicate complexity that ‘there is no clear, measurable line between acceptable and unacceptable. Words mean different things to different people in different societies.’ (ACMA). The stunt in itself was a culmination of the ‘crass commercialism’ in 2Day FM’s corporate culture which values ratings above decency standards expected by all of its stakeholders (Holgate), while legal remedies offer a recourse, it is evident that prevention has to come from within. Central to a company is its corporate culture, the vision of the executive officer needs to trickle down the levels of management, and this process would then be reflected through the everyday acts of its employees. The consultation of its lawyers prior to broadcast

World renowned philanthropist, entrepreneur, and charitable benefactor Sanjay Shah, in a recent interview on the Entrepreneur Podcast Network, spoke of entrepreneurial success. The founder of Solo Capital and Autism Rocks offered insight, inspiration, and motivation for the path towards success in business.

I was sitting at work one day and just happened to see a tweet pop up from my local radio station's radio host "Found out i can't go to @NiallOfficial's sold out show in Atlanta next week-want my tickets & soundcheck passes? RT + follow, u could win!" I had a past with this radio station that usually involved me trying to win something, them smarting off to me, and me never winning in the end. This time around I figured that it couldn't hurt to enter, but was not expecting very much