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Journalism's Nowhere
Jay Rosen at PressThink on the things he’s learned in 25 years of teaching journalism:
It’s Bill Keller insisting that “torture” is the wrong word for the New York Times to use in describing torture because it involves taking sides in a dispute between the United States Government and its critics. It’s Howard Kurtz suggesting that Anderson Cooper was “taking sides” when he called the lies of the Libyan government lies. But it’s also the reporter who has to master the routine of “laundering my own views [by] dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader.” And it’s that lame formula known as he said, she said journalism. It’s the way CNN “leaves it there” when two guests give utterly conflicting accounts.
Long ago, something went awry in professional journalism the way the Americans do it, and it left these visible deformations. In my own criticism I have given various names to this pattern: agendalessness, the quest for innocence— most often, the View From Nowhere.
Journalism’s Nowhere
Jay Rosen at PressThink on the things he’s learned in 25 years of teaching journalism:
It’s Bill Keller insisting that “torture” is the wrong word for the New York Times to use in describing torture because it involves taking sides in a dispute between the United States Government and its critics. It’s Howard Kurtz suggesting that Anderson Cooper was “taking sides” when he called the lies of the Libyan government lies. But it’s also the reporter who has to master the routine of “laundering my own views [by] dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader.” And it’s that lame formula known as he said, she said journalism. It’s the way CNN “leaves it there” when two guests give utterly conflicting accounts.
Long ago, something went awry in professional journalism the way the Americans do it, and it left these visible deformations. In my own criticism I have given various names to this pattern: agendalessness, the quest for innocence— most often, the View From Nowhere.
Absolute Doubt
Jay Rosen‘s Pressthink features an interesting discussion about a recent New York Times article on some Iraqi bloggers. There was nothing religious about the original article, but the question of what was wrong Continue Reading →
Democratic National Ritual, 2004
By Jay Rosen My fellow academics in journalism and media studies all know his name; too many journalists (and bloggers for that matter) do not. James W. Carey of Columbia University has had Continue Reading →
Democratic National Ritual 2004
By Jay Rosen My fellow academics in journalism and media studies all know his name; too many journalists (and bloggers for that matter) do not. James W. Carey of Columbia University has had Continue Reading →
The "R" Word
Jay Rosen: “If a religion writer covered the presidential campaign, how would campaign coverage be different? The least interesting part of that question is how such journalists might handle better Continue Reading →
The "R" Word
Jay Rosen: “If a religion writer covered the presidential campaign, how would campaign coverage be different? The least interesting part of that question is how such journalists might handle better Continue Reading →
The “R” Word
Jay Rosen: “If a religion writer covered the presidential campaign, how would campaign coverage be different? The least interesting part of that question is how such journalists might handle better Continue Reading →