Images and RealityImages and Reality

Images and RealityImages and Reality

Images and RealityImages and Reality

Images and RealityImages and Reality

Journalists should not manipulate images and sound to mislead readers and misrepresent subjects.

Journalism EthicsJournalism Ethics

“Journalism, like most professions, developed a set of business practices first, then endowed those practices with a set of impressive professional rationalizations, and finally proceeded to rewrite its history in ways that made the practices seem to emerge, as if through immaculate conception, from an inspiring set of professional ideals.” - W. Lance Bennett, News: The Politics of

Illusion

American Journalism of first 100 years was pre-professional

Charles Dana, 1888Charles Dana, 1888

Get the news, get all the news, get nothing but the news.

Copy nothing from another publication without perfect credit.

Never print an interview without the knowledge and consent of the party interviewed.

Never print a paid advertisement as news-matter. Let every advertisement appear as an advertisement; no sailing under false colors.

Never attack the weak or defenseless, either by argument, by invective or by ridicule, unless there is some absolute public necessity for so doing.

Fight for your opinions but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.

Support your party, if you have one; but do not think all the good men are in it and all the bad ones outside it.

Above all, know and believe that humanity is advancing; that there is progress in human life and human affairs; and that, as sure as God lives, the future will be greater and better than the present or the past.

Clinton/Lewinsky Clinton/Lewinsky ScandalScandal

Important for two reasons: Broke and concluded on Internet Affected traditional journalism behavior

Committee of

Concerned Journalists study:

““Mixed Media CultureMixed Media Culture””

Sources gaining power over journalists

Decline of gatekeeping function The news of the day as it reaches the newspaper office is

an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. - Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News, 1920

Reporting culture is being overrun by argument culture http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/0

1/12/pn.teacher.accused.rape.cnn

Amateur Journalism?Amateur Journalism? Knights for Free Water

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5818109257

Bright House stadium debut Big event, tons of media coverage No water fountains Bottled water sold out, concessions sold $3 for a

cup of tap water Several fans went to hospital for dehydration/heat

exhaustion 2 students started a Facebook group from the

stands 2 days later, 10 drinking fountains announced with

40 more to come

Pew StatsPew Stats

Cell Phones 83% of American adults have cell phones

35% of American adults have smartphones 76% of cell users take photos 72% of cell users use SMS (text) 51% of cell users use phone for information 42% of cell users use phone for entertainment 13% of cell users report pretending to use a cell

phone to avoid physical interaction

GadgetsGadgets

Social NetworkingSocial Networking

72% of Americans (72% of Internet users) belong to a social networking platform average age increased from 33 to 38 in 2011 half SNS users are over 35 70% of men, 74% of women are SNS users 92% of SNS users are on Facebook 29% use MySpace (2011, and falling) 18% use LinkedIn (2011, and growing) 13% use Twitter (2011, and growing)

Who USES Twitter is also who CAN BE REACHED by Twitter

Generational ValuesGenerational Values

Generational ValuesGenerational Values

Generational ValuesGenerational Values