JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Walter Lippmann, Somalia Affair, Telling Stories
4 Mar 2014
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A few things jump out of this book: Loyalty to citizens, ordinary people who rely on the media to intervene on their behalf. Discipline of verification: we have a code, a way of doing things. The person who reads it knows the context, where it came from. Physically being there as a journalist, a representative of citizens who can be there where others can"t. Telling stories, significant, interesting, compelling, relevant to an audience in order to connect with them. You have images and notions in your head about what is happening in syria. You have experienced this because the media has brought this to you, the media has shaped your mental image of syria. The world is so big, so complex, it"s impossible to take it all in so we rely on media to bring the world to us. Represents what media does, we provide people with images that help them understand the world, wether it"s accurate or not.
