MEDIAST 130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Responsibility, Walter Lippmann, Journalistic Objectivity

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Media Studies
• Course: MEDIAST 130
• Professor: Tom Goldstein

Document Summary

Some truth/headquarters in new york/journalists are liberal, but owners, like most owners, are republican. They share values and assumptions, but they are fiercely competitive/go to same bars, clubs. Assertion by cunningham: we see the world through new york eyes. The establishment describe the geography tv (abc, cbs, nbc), cable, magazines, book publishers, major newspapers. 10,000 journalists in manhattan quite unrepresentative of the country. In fact, manhattan, cunningham argues, is the least representative place in the country. Usa today mclean, va. , but no home base no home team. The larger point: press is large, but not monolithic. Geoffrey nunberg teaches a course on history of information that some of you may have taken. Notes that bias has changed its meaning over the past 50 years. Until the 1950"s, bias was more or less a synonym for partisanship, which was generally opposed to accuracy and objectivity. It generally implied a deliberate effort to distort events.