COMM 1101 Lecture 6: Lecture 6: The Culture of Journalism: Making the News
30 Apr 2012
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Lecture 6: the culture of journalism: making the news. Wiki leaks: video called collateral murder, people being murdered by apache. Affirmative evidence that the apache helicopters were armed threats. What was thought was a weapon was actually a camera. Wiki leaks is capable of creating the news. It"s easy to become entangled in the definitions of journalism and news because they are multifaceted concepts that change over time. It"s normal to be confused about what news and journalism are, and to. Make sense of things through deduction; task is to make sense of these complex topics. Constantly engaged in a process of sense making. Journalism is traditionally seen as the work that professional journalists do for newspapers, television, or other mass media. : what"s wrong with this definition, it doesn"t encompass the roles of informal people reporting on news, i. e. citizen journalists.
