Media, Information and Technoculture 3100F/G Lecture 7: MIT 3100: Lecture Notes
2 Nov 2016
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From schudson"s why democracies need an unlovable press . In the 1960s hannah arendt noted that facts and truth are on rather bad terms with each another . Difference between factual truths vs. formal truths. Arendt observed that power threatened truth (particularly factual truth) She asserted that there is no justification for blurring the lines between fact, opinion and interpretation. It would take, she argues, a power monopoly to erase this fact . Such a power monopoly is far from being inconceivable, and it is not difficult to imagine what the fate of factual truth would be if power interests, national or social, had the last say in these matters. Kovach and rosenstiel, in the elements of journalism, say it"s the role of journalists to provide citizens in a democracy with enough information to be free and self-governing. 10 elements that must be present to fulfill this duty. Journalism"s first obligation is to the truth.
