While searching for an introduction to "Narrative Journalism" I found the quote below from Bill Kirtz, Professor, Northeastern University:
Now more than ever -- when outmoded notions of "he said/she said" fairness, avaricious owners and new media all threaten newspapers' primacy -- narrative journalism has the chance and the vital mission of bringing context and emotion to reporting.
He wrote this on Dec. 5, 2005. How very cool to see the mission stated without guile: "...threaten newspapers' primacy..."
Read "Now more than ever" and you might wonder if he had already been teaching this technique of "bringing context and emotion" into journalism for a while.
Ok, so it has been quite obvious that newspapers and other media formats have been bringing their own context and emotion to, um, something that is still called journalism but that which behaves quite differently from what existed prior to the 1960s.
Outmoded notions of he said/she said fairness... wow. Many reporters and editors feel they have a vital mission to move beyond outmoded notions of fairness. This is what was being taught in school.
The article quotes Cheryl Carpenter, managing editor of the Charlotte Observer: "Think of narrative journalism as a way you get at the messiness of truth" and you'll be fair...
How Orwellian... insert a message into the story... for the sake of fairness?
One has to love "the messiness of truth" and how news workers have an obligation to be so fair as to assign the roles of hero, villain, and victim.
Note to conservatives: if you walk like a lamb into the tender mercies of the educated journalists, there is a very good chance your assigned role will be neither hero nor victim.
What say you?
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Now more than ever -- when outmoded notions of "he said/she said" fairness, avaricious owners and new media all threaten newspapers' primacy -- narrative journalism has the chance and the vital mission of bringing context and emotion to reporting.
He wrote this on Dec. 5, 2005. How very cool to see the mission stated without guile: "...threaten newspapers' primacy..."
Read "Now more than ever" and you might wonder if he had already been teaching this technique of "bringing context and emotion" into journalism for a while.
Ok, so it has been quite obvious that newspapers and other media formats have been bringing their own context and emotion to, um, something that is still called journalism but that which behaves quite differently from what existed prior to the 1960s.
Outmoded notions of he said/she said fairness... wow. Many reporters and editors feel they have a vital mission to move beyond outmoded notions of fairness. This is what was being taught in school.
The article quotes Cheryl Carpenter, managing editor of the Charlotte Observer: "Think of narrative journalism as a way you get at the messiness of truth" and you'll be fair...
How Orwellian... insert a message into the story... for the sake of fairness?
One has to love "the messiness of truth" and how news workers have an obligation to be so fair as to assign the roles of hero, villain, and victim.
Note to conservatives: if you walk like a lamb into the tender mercies of the educated journalists, there is a very good chance your assigned role will be neither hero nor victim.
What say you?
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