I remember watching Linda Ellerbee on "Nick News" as a child. This was Nickolodeon cable TV station that was in some real sense trying to teach children about what journalism is and how the job is done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ellerbee …
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The main mnemonic device they used was "the 5 W's": who? when? where? what? why? (and they eventually added "how?" as a sixth question) to illustrate the inquisitive and truth-seeking orientation of journalism.
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the message was essentially that journalists have an important job, which should be understood as informing their audience about the relevant facts of a news story as well as covering the relevant actors and their motives (if such things could be known at the time).
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I really liked the program. I felt like it made me appreciate the job that reporters do and not take for granted that these things are "just known" but rather than someone did some difficult work to get the knowledge out to you.
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if the goal of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee was to educate children to be good citizens with an appreciation for the truth, well, it failed. The news media, especially as practiced by my generation (I'm an older millennial, born 1984) is as far away from this vision as possible.
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What we have now is a style of "journalism" (sneer quotes intentional) that seeks to perform narrative control as the primary task. the fundamental goal of "journalists" now isn't to report the facts. it's to instruct their tribe how to signal correct views to each other.
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We've moved into a media era where there are only cursory attempts to report facts. To whatever extent facts are reported they are framed in deliberately constructed narratives that suggest a "correct" interpretation. I call this "Fox News-ification" of everything.
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The Private Press was at one point thought to be a check and balance on self-interested government bureaucracies and other companies that might work against the public interest (but only get away with it if they can keep the secret).
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There's a reason Clark Kent (the American demigod himself) worked as a reporter. He could use his strength as Superman to protect people from bullets, but the more important work was protecting civic society from Falsity and Inequity. "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"
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No amount of physical strength could bring Truth and Justice to the world. Kal-El could destroy armies but Clark Kent was doing the harder job and the job that made a bigger difference for more people (if done effectively). Where are our Clark Kents in 2018?
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