JOUR 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kahlil Gibran, Walter Lippmann, Eyewitness Testimony

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

Document Summary

As modern press took shape, promise of truth was part of marketing. Means more than just accurate collection of facts. Sorting out process- it"s ongoing, even after initial story. New york world, 1913, created bureau of accuracy and fair play. Toronto star was first in canada to make bureau of accuracy. News and truth are not the same thing- function of news is to signal an event. The function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation which eachother and make a picture of reality upon which men can act. What is true now may not be true later. We try to get closest to truth as possible. Truth can come one piece at a time. We document one piece, not whole thing- it keeps changing. Einstein- science is not about truth so much as about making what we know less false.