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Independence and Journalism
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The Debate on the Proposed Mosque
at Ground Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4
kRQ_1YOC0&feature=fvst
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Journalists must maintain an
independence from those they
cover (Kovach & Rosenstiel 118)
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The journalists role is predicated on a specialkind of engagementbeing dedicated to
informing the public, but not to playing adirect role as an activist (Kovach & Rosenstiel
135)
Engaged Independence
Opinion Journalist vs. Partisan Propagandist
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Propaganda & Activism
"Propaganda is the deliberate, systematicattempt to shape perceptions, manipulate
cognitions, and direct behavior to achieve aresponse that furthers the desired intent of
the propagandist.-Garth Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion,
4th ed. Sage Publications, p. 7
http://akhilak.com/blog/wp -content/uploads/2009/10/consumer -
activism.jpg
Activism consists of intentional action to
bring about social, political, economic, or
environmental change-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_Can_Do_It!.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_t his_tomorrow.jpg
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Is Neutrality a Journalism Principle?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/President_Bush_presents_William_Safire_the
_2006_President_Medal_of_Freedom.jpg
Hard Facts
Truthful Conclusions Put readers first
William Safire
Presidential Speechwriter
and Conserv
ativ
e NewYork Times Columnist
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Hard Facts
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Truthful Conclusions
Put Readers First
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"...[O]pinion must be based on something more
substantial than personal beliefs if it is to be of
journalistic use. It is not about believing in people
or groups of people. It is a craft based on reporting,learning, understanding, and educating. Creating
barriers to this process of discovery is, in the end,
being disloyal to the public" (Kovach & Rosenstiel
137).
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Writing as a Participant
Hard to think from other perspectives
Hard to win trust of sources, combatants
Hard to persuade audience you put themahead ofyour team
(Kovach & Rosenstiel 119)
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Independence in PracticeWhat can and cannot be done?
Some were actually banned from participating in certain actions
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Different Degrees of Wrong Actions
1. Involved2. In charge
3. Living it
Her marching jeopardizedthe appearance
of her reporting and reprimanded her.
Firedtwo editors afterthey founded
an anti-abortion organization.
Pulledtwo women reporters off a gay marriage
story aftertheywere married atCity Hall.
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So, what should be done?
If anything
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Opinion Journalists Delivering News
Clear and open in intent
Open in its allegiance to a set of intellectual
principles Holds above faction or party
Committed to principles of journalism
Not about reporting th
e news, but makingsense of it
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Partisans Delivering News
Success of Fox and Rush
Limbaugh (for example)
has had impact on press
Political operatives andcelebrities
Bloggers
Speak to like-minded
people
Proselytize the
undecided
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Discussion
Can anyone reasonably be expected to cover
those who they have personal, even intimate,
loyalties to?
Are journalists obligated to be loyal first and
foremost to citizens?
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Class and Economic Status
Journalists are more highly trained, better
educated, and better paid (in some places)
Americans feel a class divide between t
hosewho produce news and those who receive it
Cognitive elite
Worldviews, mind sets, and biases from their
peers
News shaped to tastes and needs of upper class
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Commercialization of the News
News coverage is a distortion of the way life is
lived in the US
Strategic targeting of elite demograph
ics 1% of population owns 35% of stock
Is everyone watching the stock prices on CNBC?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UhKOs3dYk4
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Class Divide
People see press as an establishment they are
alienated from
Not a public surrogate on th
eir beh
alf Solution:
Newsrooms should recruit people from a diversity
of classes, backgrounds, and interests
How?
Pull people from other careers?
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Independence from
Race
Ethnicity Religion
Gender
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What is Diversity?
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Gender
More?
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There are problems with the concept of
diversity if it is narrowed simply to mean ethnic,
gender, or other numerical targets.--Kovach and
Rosenstiel
www.greenberg-art.com
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Diversity of Background and Ideas
Class, education, region, family, personal
psychology, personal experience and religion
all shape our personal ideas and beliefs.
Observable traits serve as proxy but there is a
lot more to it.
There is no such thing as the black or white
viewpoint etc.
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The Office clip
We should not be colorblind
Personal characteristics are what color journalism
How can we fulfill our role as journalists while not
completely ignoring our personal traits/ideas?
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Can ethnicity and gender be equated to
identity or expertise?
A good reporter should be able to cover everyone
and everything
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The ultimate goal of newsroom diversity is to
create an intellectually mixed environment
where everyone holds firm to the idea of
journalistic independence.