Blaming "the Media"
Mar. 27th, 2020 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI don't agree with the idea.
Reminder: I worked with the CBC's Ottawa newsroom back in the 1990's as a courtroom artist on freelance. I also count several reporters as friends and friendly acquaintances through SF&F fandom channels. This happens, fans are in every line of work, including journalism and the public services of the world, so deal with it.
Back on point: there is a tendency to blame "the media" as a group for sensationalizing every single bad-news story as it develops. I think that stereotyping has roots in facts that were true once upon a time. Going back a century, yes. That problem has been getting addressed over the generations, from the j-school classrooms of the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere across the planet to the newsrooms themselves. Those journalism schools have websites, some of them publish material on best practices currently in play - Ryerson in Canada, Columbia and Poynter in the US all coming to mind right now - and we might help ourselves during this particular crisis to go have a look at those. I'll try to remember to amend this posting with linkages relevant.
Anyway, there's my point for the moment.
More on other topics as the day goes by.
Reminder: I worked with the CBC's Ottawa newsroom back in the 1990's as a courtroom artist on freelance. I also count several reporters as friends and friendly acquaintances through SF&F fandom channels. This happens, fans are in every line of work, including journalism and the public services of the world, so deal with it.
Back on point: there is a tendency to blame "the media" as a group for sensationalizing every single bad-news story as it develops. I think that stereotyping has roots in facts that were true once upon a time. Going back a century, yes. That problem has been getting addressed over the generations, from the j-school classrooms of the US, UK, Canada and elsewhere across the planet to the newsrooms themselves. Those journalism schools have websites, some of them publish material on best practices currently in play - Ryerson in Canada, Columbia and Poynter in the US all coming to mind right now - and we might help ourselves during this particular crisis to go have a look at those. I'll try to remember to amend this posting with linkages relevant.
Anyway, there's my point for the moment.
More on other topics as the day goes by.
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Date: 2020-03-27 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-27 05:51 pm (UTC)Interesting sidebar: Columbia Review of Journalism's Fall 2019 issue deals with disinformation as a theme and subject of concern. Promotion of transphobia is something I consider part of the larger disinformation problem. Also, there's that call for "Never Again!" that the rest of us still have to learn to properly heed.