JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rwandan Genocide, Ipsos-Reid, Somalia Affair
9 Dec 2015
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Discipline of verification (how do we do our work, what are our standards and methods) Walter lippmann wrote a seminal book ~100 years ago, he had an interesting idea about the role of journalism (although he was cynical about it) Ordinary people do not know what is going on outside of daily experience, we rely on others for that. The world outside and the pictures in our heads (i. e. charlie. Hebdo, creating a picture of what happened when the attacks occur called the: the pseudo-environment . Real environment too big, complex, fleeting for direct experience. News media bring you all the bits and pieces that then get in your brain and become your world; they tell you what your world is. Pre-eminent role for the news media and how they shape people"s world. People chained in a cave, back to the door, looking at the wall.
