Journalists, Provocateurs, Maybe Both.

[Gerald]

Story,
Journalism, even in its most traditional forms, is not always neutral. Did reporters and editors at The Washington Post spend two hard years coming up with its “Top Secret America” series, a comprehensive pat-down of America’s expanding security network, merely as a by-the-way to taxpayers?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/media/26carr.html?ref=business



Note:“Top Secret America”

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

[Platapus]

Story,
Journalism, even in its most traditional forms, is not always neutral.

And that is how it should be.
Journalism should never be neutral. That is the difference between journalism and reporting. A reporter reports the facts. A journalist reports their interpretation of the facts.

If you go to J School and write a piece that only contains a review of the facts, you will not get a good grade.

Never confuse a journalist with a reporter as they are different. Unfortunately, the terms are being used indiscriminately which only adds to the confusion.

BTW we already had a thread on this

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=172605&highlight=washington+post

[Gerald]

And that is how it should be.
Journalism should never be neutral. That is the difference between journalism and reporting. A reporter reports the facts. A journalist reports their interpretation of the facts.

If you go to J School and write a piece that only contains a review of the facts, you will not get a good grade.

Never confuse a journalist with a reporter as they are different. Unfortunately, the terms are being used indiscriminately which only adds to the confusion.

BTW we already had a thread on this

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=172605&highlight=washington+post too inform me, about he last one,in this tread
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