JOUR 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fucked Up, Rob Ford, Kahlil Gibran

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1002
• Professor: Allan Thompson

Document Summary

Jour 1002: truth and objectivity (lecture 3)2016-09-17 9:40 pm: reading: journalist"s first obligation=the truth, not clear what the truth is. Accuracy: joseph pulitzer"s newspaper the world , new york world, 1913, created bureau of accuracy and fair play, toronto star was first in canada to make bureau of accuracy, better to be right than to be first. Journey to truth: journalistic truth as process, continuing journey, what is true now may not be true later, we try to get closest to truth as possible. Truth as a stalactite: practical journalistic truth, grows like a stalactite in a cave, truth can come one piece at a time, we document one piece, not whole thing- it keeps changing. Hierarchy of truth: we regret the error - typos, mistakes, basic errors, plaigirism, fabrication, exaggeration, misquoting, misinterpretation, just not the truth- intent to lie or mislead.