Journalist

In today’s society journalists and editors play a large role in providing the public with credible information; however when it comes to photographs, when does the public know if they are saying the truth? At this moment in time it’s very easy for journalists and editors to manipulate pictures and images which rises speculations among the people. Manipulating an image or photo has plenty of ethical issues which are that people can lose their trust in the journalists/editors and lose credibility…

the liberal media cannot compare in size or extreme to the conservative media (216). The author of the first passage examines various polls and studies, which concluded that there is a stronger liberal bias amongst journalists than a conservative bias. The author asserts that journalists are more liberal in how they vote, and are more likely to identify as liberal and reject conservative viewpoints regarding various topics of interest, such as war.…

Glenn Greenwald wrote an article, titled, “The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst — and Filled with Falsehoods”, and he talked about how Western journalists, specifically U.S. and U.K. journalists, fabricated evidence to create articles so that they could publish stories to prove that Snowden was a villain. Although reputable sites publish them, they should be taken with taken with a grain of salt since create stories out of nothing In his article, he convinces the reader…

If deception is the only way to reveal a vital truth, then the world should live without the truth. Deception is never the answer to a question you cannot answer. As a journalist, if you find yourself in the position where you feel as if you have exhausted all of your options, I believe that it is then time to keep trying because there is always a way. The way may never be easy, but any way is better than using deception as a tool for seeking the truth. Deception is a form of lying and lying is…

influence the media has on the world is something that cannot be ignored. This means media organisations and journalists have a crucial responsibility in what they write and put out into the public domain. In the world of Journalism, Gatekeeping and News Values hold a very important role. Gatekeeping is the process where information is filtered for publication, when a media institution or journalist will decide what is important enough to be broadcasted. The fact that news outlets become…

sub-editors, designers and photographers. As a journalist you must also always meet your deadlines and for this you will have to make sure that you can work at long and irregular…

when reporting and also how paramilitary groups used the media as a self-serving tool. The author will back these themes up with quotes from the transcripts and newspaper articles. The authors aim in this research was to gather information from journalists who reported during the troubles and to analysis newspaper articles. The following conclusions have been found; Propaganda In relation to the media’s representation of propaganda, each respondents had mixed responses to this question,…

Hurricane Katrina. However, stories like these were almost never covered by journalists and therefore the world would not find out about this, not until years or so after the storm. Instead, what journalists covered during Hurricane Katrina were stories or reports that targeted African Americans, and this angered the African American community because these stories…

The question of whether journalists or private philanthropists have a greater responsibility to rhetorical ethics requires an examination…? David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea demonstrates the power of a private philanthropist in using emotional appeals and embellishments of truth to convince the public into giving money to a charity—in this case, the Central Asia Institute (CAI). On the other hand, an analysis of John Krakauer’s rhetoric in Three Cups of Deceit proves that…

Since the beginning of American journalism, there has been a relationship between the reader and journalist of supply and demand. The reader wants scandalous or critical news and the journalist is happy to provide. In the 1960s, Clare Boothe Luce, in a speech made for the journalists in Women's National Press Club, criticizes the journalists for their seemingly mindless continuation of the supply and demand cycle. Luce challenges them to focus on the complete truth, rather than a fantastical…