CMNS 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Journalistic Objectivity, News Values, Ethnocentrism
6 Jun 2016
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Traditionally, the idea of objectivity has been subjected to unremitting attack by academic critics of news and journalism. Objectivity is thought to entail and highlighting the different sorts of doubts that have been raised about it. Journalism is criticised for failing to achieve objectivity try to identify the factors that impede its realisation. Objectivity is sometimes held to be impossible or illusory, and journalism"s claim to achieve it is denounced as necessarily false. Objectivity and its discontents: entails a commitment to truthfulness a. reporting factually accurate information. 2. imply neutrality in the sense of fairness and balance: seeking to be impartial and unbiased in the process of reporting and , where there are conflicting interpretations of an event, presenting different viewpoints even-handedly. 3. imply neutrality in the sense of emotional detachment: a dispassionate approach that separates fact from comment and allows news audiences to make up their minds about events rather than being offered a journalist"s own response.
