POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Journalistic Objectivity
7 Jun 2014
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Two e"s: opposite of bias what does it mean. Among journalists there are robust support for this. Any scale, high end usa 91% journalist thinking it"s important, and low in sweden with 76%. You don"t let your attitudes or values impact what you"re talking about. Ethical side: fairness and balance in coverage, difference news cultures go around different notions; some emphasize the fairness component, the others emphasis the factual component. Patterson and wolfgang: patterns that evolved, certain european countries are not concerned with fairness, when asked what do you have the most functional as a journalist; go beyond the conflict and go to hard facts underpinning the dispute 58%. Ex: us government has partial shutdown, the swedish would say the executive is saying one thing the legislature is saying another thing what"s the truth. Americans barely go beneath report as fairly as possible what each other is saying. The differences can be found in the role and function of journalists.
