JOUR 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Modern Immigration To The United Kingdom, Somalia Affair, Ernie Pyle
19 Jun 2018
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Textbook- The Elements of Journalism- 3rd Edition, published in 2014.
Journalism:
- First obligation: truth
- First loyalty: the citizens
- Discipline of verification
- Independent monitor of power
- Make the significant interesting and relevant
What is journalism for?
- The world outside and the pictures in our heads
- The “pseudo-environment”
- Real environment too big, complex, fleeting for direct experience
- Media bring us the world outside our direct experience
Plato’s allegory of the cave:
- People chained inside a cave see only shadows from fire behind
- For them, shadows are real, their real world
- Sound familiar?
- The media provides people with these shadows and reflections, and people take it as real. What
we create is their real world, journalism isn’t the event itself, it is a creation of the event.
What is journalism for?
- Storytelling with a purpose
- The power of narrative
- The way a democratic society has a conversation with itself
- Creating knowledge, filling in the blank space
- In a democratic society journalism is the way we have conversations with ourselves, democratic
societies have a free and functioning media, non-democratic societies do not.
Example: The professor wrote a story about a family being deported back to Pakistan, when their 6 year
old daughter would die if they did. His story informed the immigration officer and the family got to stay
in Canada.
The professor wrote a story about an MP visiting immigrants in Toronto. He made a remark that was;
out of context, he was wrong, he didn’t check, the information wasn’t verified. The MP was ridiculed for
something he didn’t say.
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Document Summary
Textbook- the elements of journalism- 3rd edition, published in 2014. The world outside and the pictures in our heads. Real environment too big, complex, fleeting for direct experience. Media bring us the world outside our direct experience. People chained inside a cave see only shadows from fire behind. For them, shadows are real, their real world. The media provides people with these shadows and reflections, and people take it as real. What we create is their real world, journalism isn"t the event itself, it is a creation of the event. The way a democratic society has a conversation with itself. In a democratic society journalism is the way we have conversations with ourselves, democratic societies have a free and functioning media, non-democratic societies do not. Example: the professor wrote a story about a family being deported back to pakistan, when their 6 year old daughter would die if they did.
