personal notes (4)

Question 1

what impossible position is the reporter put in ?

Answer 1

fight injustices and at the same time be nonjudgmental and not take sides

Question 2

what is truth?
empiricist
ratonalists

Answer 2

you can find truth by using senses

argued our senses are fallible

Question 3

plato: contact with physical world yielded only?

real truth learned by?

Answer 3

temporary truths

-enlightenment and study

Question 4

aristotle: observing real world he could produce?

- rules of ?

Answer 4

truth that he could confirm by testing

-logic and scientific method

Question 5

early american journalists: highly ? and depended on ?

getting other side of the story was ? believed their opinions were

Answer 5

• partisan/funding from political parties

- silly/truth

Question 6

19th and 20th century truth was seen as?
why?
also known as the idea of ?

Answer 6

empiricism and scientific method
because of advances in technology
-logical positivism or modernism

Question 7

logical positivism principles
way to understand world is to ?
-facts and opinions are ? facts are ?
-people can ?
-scientific developments are making the world ?

Answer 7

classify observe closely and to classify and analyze what is seen

• separate things/ basis of truth
• objectively obtain facts
• a better place

Question 8

journalists began to decipher between fact and opinion

Answer 8

news column= fact

editorial=opinion

Question 9

1940s the journalists disagreed that journalists should just write?
-what commission
-decided they should give ?
report ?

Answer 9

facts
commission on freedom of the press
-truthful, comprehensive, intelligent account of days events in context that gives them meaning
-truth about fact

Question 10

Sen. John McCarthy: having papers print ?
-journalists knew ?

washington post coined term?

who brought him down ?

outcome: the truth meant more than ?
- started getting ?
- news became more ?

Answer 10

that he uncovered all these secret communists in government to get into papers
-they were being used

• McCarthyism
• TV: CBS’s Murrow, See It Now
• reporting facts
• more than one source
• subjective

Question 11

can balance produce lazy journalists

Answer 11

many settled for more easy to do balanced stories

Question 12

side effect of balanced stories: seem to make ?

should balance stories with two viewpoints when they rely on?

Answer 12

• both sides equally as credible

- opinion

Question 13

problems with determining balance
counting ? may not be effective way to ?
-attempt to classify
-even if researchers conclude one candidate received ? the cause may not be ?

Answer 13

minutes and stories /determine balance

• favorable and unfavorable and positive and negative
• considerably more bad press/ bias

Question 14

the question of objectivity
-objectivity is ?
aim for people to ?

Answer 14

seeing the world as it is not how you wish it were

-deal with personal biases

Question 15

blogs, truth, objectivity 
prize?
more willing to accept ?
-dont have to go through ?
more ?

Answer 15

immediacy
possibility of being wrong
editors so they can break major stories
honest

Question 16

trust blogs because

• limit themselves to
• more open about
• bloggers ?
• when bloggers err the credible ones?

Answer 16

• niche
• motives
• transparent about sourcing
• take resp. and post corrected info

Question 17

some news allowing ?

some say comments are ?

Answer 17

comments on online articles

-objectionable and libelous

Question 18

should journalism abandon objectivity 
overholser stated three benefits: 
1. news media might 
2. interest in politics and voter turnout are ?
3. if much of criticism of media might ?

Answer 18

• attract ore readers and viewers
• higher in countries where press is more openly partisan
• disappear if journalists less likely to hide behind objectivity

Question 19

journalism of attachment
amanpour: writing about ?
objectivity means

Answer 19

serbs bombing muslims

-giving all sides a fair hearing but not treating all sides equally