J 301F Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Henry David Thoreau, Cocktail Party, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
10/13/16
Listening Class Lecture
• A curious person on steroids makes a good journalist.
• Pesoal teholog is poduig a ioluta a: hoies ae ade fo ou, athe tha ou akig
your own decisions.
• Get your facts straight.
• Get your logic straight.
• Evaluate your own biases.
• Listen to what your sources and story is trying to tell you.
Enemies of Good Listening
• Too much reporterly ego
• Too little homework
• Igoae of a sto’s histoial otet
• Too little familiarity with a story
• Distractions (social media)
Why Listen Carefully
• To get information
• To get nuance
• To pick up contradictions
• To hea hat as’t said
• To engage sources
Digital Distractions
• If ou’e epotig ia soial edia ou eed to e good, uik, ad auate listee.
• We need to invest ourselves in a story.
“top Googling. Let’s Talk. Turkle
• Plus: You never have to be bored, you can put your attention wherever you want it to be.
• Minus: Conversation is kept relatively light, on topics where people feel they can drop in and out.
• Minus: Students described a sense of loss.
Problems For Society, For Reporting
• Lak of epath (oesatio is the ost huaizig thig e do
• Low tolerance for solitude
• Low tolerance for boring topics of people
You at to fid the gold, ou hae to go off ito ugged teai.
Historical Perspective
• Telegraph: 1850s
• Oliver Wendell Holmes: this communication keeps us alive with excitement and the equalizing and
steadying of public opinion.
• Henry David Thoreau: skeptic, Maine and Texas may have nothing important to say, yet we are in great
haste to connect them with telegraph lines.
• Fast Food industry, TV and radio
• C. Wight Mills: Fats ae’t eough, use ifoatio ad deelop easo.
David Brooks: Two Forms of Intelligence
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