Ch 6: by Sharon Tickle.
MEEA: Respect for the truth and the public's right to information are fundamental principals of journalism.
TERMS OF REFERENCE:
- The struggle between news work and entertainment as apart of the role of a journalist.
- Journalists face the task of truthfully representingh in words, numbers, sound and pictures, events that have occurred at a particular time in a particular place.
- Gratten suggests commercial pressures are causing infotainment take-over of newspapers.
- Perhaps then as Chris Mitchell said "if a journalist cant tell the difference between fact and fiction, they shouldn't be in the job".
- News media producers reject claims that they can not represent the truth in their news stories, while cultural studies theorists say its futile to try and represent the truth because it is a situational and subjective construction of reality.
TERMS OF REFERENCE:
- The struggle between news work and entertainment as apart of the role of a journalist.
- Journalists face the task of truthfully representingh in words, numbers, sound and pictures, events that have occurred at a particular time in a particular place.
- Gratten suggests commercial pressures are causing infotainment take-over of newspapers.
- Perhaps then as Chris Mitchell said "if a journalist cant tell the difference between fact and fiction, they shouldn't be in the job".
- News media producers reject claims that they can not represent the truth in their news stories, while cultural studies theorists say its futile to try and represent the truth because it is a situational and subjective construction of reality.
TRUTH FROM PLATO & FOUCAULT:
There were 3 different schools of thought about whether truth could be universal.
Plato: said a universal truth could be realised as a transcendent ideal independent of the concrete thing itself
Aristotle: argued universality was inherent in the thing or idea itself.
Thomas Aquinas: states that 'ideas has three kinds of existence: as exemplars of God, as intelligible forms of things and as concepts in humans minds cause by abstracting from things.
Postmodernism: There is no truth (which seems to be a truth, therefore the only truth is that there is no truth: confusing much?)
REASONING AND JUDGEMENT:
- Deductive reasoning: relies on inferring from general principals that are then applied to specific facts to reach logically correct conclusions.
- Inductive reasoning: based on the inference from specific facts that are then combined to draw general conclusions that have different levels of plausibility.
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES:
Must be able to sort the chaff from the grain.
Need to be much more reactive
Ethical, critical, reflective and well trained journalists can capitalise on the new technologies to better do the job of presenting new information in a timely fashion to their audience.
AUTHORISED TRUTH TELLERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE OF CONVERGENCE:
- Digital technology and the Internet are the mass media mediums for journalists today.
- While print will never die (supposedly) the patient is ailing.
- Convergence will see the intermeshing of the interface between TV radio and the Internet so that news content produced by one medium us screen by the other two.
- One obvious concern in this scenario is that the tiered structure which existed to sift and sort news is considerably flattened.
- Fact and source checking may be skipped altogether.
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