[JOUR 1002] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (151 pages long)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1002
• Professor: Allan Thompson

Document Summary

What is journalism for: walter lippman & public opinion , the world outside and the pictures in our heads- we create a picture of events, the pseudo-environment - newspaper makes this picture in our heads, a pseudo-environment about the world. News brings you bits and pieces that become our world and tell us what is going on: real environment too big, complex, fleeting for direct experience, media bring us the world outside our direct experience. It is like the news media- it may not be entire truth, but to people who consume it, it"s real because it"s all they"ve got: weight on journalists to get it right so snapshot of truth is real. What is journalism for: storytelling with purpose- not conventional storytelling, but value to looking at journalists as storytellers. We become part of national conversation through the media: the power of narrative, the way a democratic society has a conversation with itself, creating knowledge, filling the blank space.