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/bu...l?ref=business



Note:“Top Secret America”

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

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Vendor

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/show...ashington+post

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Platapus

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/show...ashington+post

too inform me, about he last one,in this tread