Journalism 201 1st Edition Lecture 11Outline of Last Lecture II. Different Types of Journalism:III. Straight NewsIV. News AnalysisV. EditorialsVI. Op-eds and opinion columnsVII. Letters to the editorVIII. Feature SectionsIX. “The Blogs”Outline of Current Lecture II. Principles and Challenges in JournalismIII. ObjectivityIV. BalanceCurrent LectureI. Principles and Challenges in Journalisma. The grans principles of American Journalismi. Objectivityii. Balanceiii. Fairnessiv. Accuracy/ Verificationv. Independencevi. Transparencyvii. Relevanceviii. Holding power accountableb. When and where do these principles apply?II. Objectivitya. “The lost meaning of objectivity” – Kovach and roseb. Inevitability of Biasi. To be unbias would be to have no opinions or feelingsc. Scientific Rationality: sense that through scientific investigation and reason, trained journalists can reach objective truthd. We are skeptical that anyone can be unbias/ objective e. Two responses:i. Fatalism: we are fatally compromised by our own interests and prejudicesThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1. Give up on objectivity and instead, offer audiences pointedly partisan news2. Recover a useful sense of objectivity?a. An objectivity of methodIII. Balance a. Where does false balance originate?i. The press have become a site of political battleb. Attacks on journalismi. Hostile media effectii. Recognition of media power iii. New competitioniv. Political strategy (working the refs)c. Hostile media effecti. People tend to believe news coverage as biased against people like themd. Media Poweri. Rose with the ascendance of TVii. Richard Nixon, 1962iii. Becoming clear that media representations, especially television, shape public perceptionsiv. Media increasingly viewed as a political playerv. “Mediatization/ Media Power”e. New Competitioni. Pluralization of channels available to the audienceii. 1980s-1990s: Rise of talk radioiii. Cable newsf. Political Strategyi. “Working the refs”ii. Used longest and most successfully by the political rightiii. You want the journalists to be wondering if their being to hard on youiv. Or just tell the public that the press is biasg. Outcomes of Attacks on the Pressi. Convince the public that the media is biasedii. Reduce trust in the pressiii. Make journalists think twice about criticizing your sideh. Press response to attacksi. A great desire to appear neutralii. ***There is a difference between the product and the processi. The “View from Nowhere”i. Jay Rosenii. Defensive stance against charge of bias iii. Report what is said; do not decide what is truej. Another problemi. What if there are more than 2 sides?k. So what is left of balance?i. Problems of false balance do not relieve journalists of thinking about balanceii. They still need to critically think about it1. Has anyone been left
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