Group 5 Powerpoint Presentation

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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.

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