JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jingoism
23 Sep 2020
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Personal and conventional opinions are not news unless somebody makes them an. Role of the press agent in the modern process of newsmaking. It puts in evidence that news don"t just happen, but are socially made. Bad conditions are not news; stylized versions of them are. This is simply what the sources say happened. inevitable. What you have is self-interested agents trying to make the news. News necessarily is a distortion of reality. The function of truth is to bring the light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act. lippmann, The complex relation between news and truth. Truth is different from opinion; scientific inquiry or ideology. A journalist"s version of the truth is subjective and limited to how (s)he constructs. The news are not (and shouldn"t be) a means of expression for the public.
