American journalists

New York Times as fake, even when it really isn’t. I think the biggest reason the “fake” news is spreading is obviously Social Media and the 24 hours news cycle. Journalists used to have to adhere to much stricter guidelines compared to a news source that is exclusively social media. In the article How Journalists Minimize Bias A Journalist from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch stated “People are biased; the process is not. You know, we go out, we talk to multiple people, we look at a story from…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

Bailey Gillen Robert Whitley History 132-620 12 June, 2017 Primary Document Review: Yellow Journalism: Sinking of the Battleship Maine Yellow journalism helps the media control politics in the United States. By avoiding crucial facts and isolating information that they want, the media can use this journalism tactic to skew the public’s perception of reality. As messed up as this seems, it also falls as the duty of citizens to be careful of what news they believe when they are searching for truth…

“Soldier's Home” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that shows the post-war effects on a person and how they try to adjust back into their lives as it was before they left. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. After finishing high school Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I. While serving he was wounded on an Italian war front. After the war he took his first hand experiences and wrote them into several of his books. At the age of 62…

crime committed. To detect this, one should come up with examples in the past where double standards were used citing of such cases. Stereotype coverage: journalists should be educated on the misconceptions involved in stereotypes and how they unfairly characterize individuals. For instance, in drug crisis, the most targeted are African Americans despite the fact that whites are the vast drug users. The unchallenged assumptions: this involves the exposure/omission of the crucial message of a…

American journalist Sydney Schanberg when commenting about his work in Cambodia stated, “His mission with me in Cambodia was to tell the world what suffering his people were going through in a war that was never necessary. It became my mission too” (Martin 2008). Schanberg, along with many other journalists during this era, wanted to illustrate to the American people the horrors of genocide and its effect on the natives of a particular country (Joffe 1985). Journalists also hoped to incite…

routines and norms influence the way journalists report political news. Existing professional norms, specifically objectivity, are not realistic, effective or desirable in the ways that they are applied today. This is because the identity of a journalist has been skewed into a mere shadow of what the profession once was. There is a way for reporting to fulfill their watchdog role in the media. In regards to the realm of current media environment and American politics, I believe journalism should…

Having accurate and unbiased sources are the bright line for what makes great news. Although, some critique these outlets of only showcasing stories that grab in the ratings, lack truth, or just sensationalize the truth. Patrick Cockburn, a renown journalist, is one of the few who work in the media who try to expose the truth about flawed coverage, specially with environment reporting. Sensationalism, as defined by the dictionary is, “(especially in journalism) the use of exciting or shocking…

as reviewing statistical data presented by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) in regard to media bias. The thesis of the article is that bias has two effects on news stories; due to media bias, individuals are left more skeptical of information presented by news sources, reducing demand for news stories and forcing organizations to lower their prices for publications while in return accepting lower quality stories; second, journalists may bias their stories in order to create a…

Every news reporter, journalists, author, or radio host must be always thinking is this ethical? Even though this thought goes through their minds constantly it doesn’t always end up being completely ethical. While doing research on Lou Dobbs, a former conservative worker of CNN, and Rachel Maddow, a current liberal host for MSNBC, I found out that these two people are willing to speak their opinions on every issue. In an article from The Nation, Lou Dobbs is referred to as a hypocrite and…