Journalist

Journalists and the press have to power to distribute information to the public while also having the power to serve as “rigorous watchdog[s] of those in power [or those] who want to be in power”. Although this rippling series in accountability of power has been portrayed as a charismatic facet of journalism, popular culture has also revealed the unfortunate side of journalism that can be dominated by powerful interests—ultimately failing to fulfill it’s duty to “ferret out truth from lies”.…

2013,the Huffington post published “Foreign News at a Crisis point”, an article by Peter Goodman, executive business and global editor at the Huffington Post. He claims that some journalists are reporting foreign news and not informing the audience of the real facts. He specifically argues that we need professional journalists and need to find new ways to report foreign news that will properly inform the audience. To strengthen his argument, Goodman uses three rhetorical elements; strong…

common practice amongst many media outlets. Plentiful of published stories are sourced from press agencies or based on public relation releases, thus journalists’ work is minimalised to simply copying such materials. Effectively, becomes unaccountable (Fenton 2012) and no longer search of truth and do not fulfill watchdog function. Lastly, for journalists to be objective and independent it is important that media industry is pluralistic, so the public have a variety of news from various media…

was considered; but what constitutes as a substantial amount, or how do you define what is qualitatively important? Bob Tarantino states in his analysis of the Warman v. Fournier case, “no precise answer is possible” (5). Practically speaking, a journalist could ‘summarize’ a large amount of a work and it could count as fair dealing, or use small amount of excerpts from a work and it could be classified as an infringement because the definition of substantiality is not defined. Michael Geist…

media has been a growing concern since the arrival of the internet. Today media officials along with the public are apprehensive about the risks that citizens take to provide stories and photos during dangerous situations. The citizen and freelance journalists are placing their lives at risk. Citizen journalism is a risky business, on the other hand without it the mainstream news would not obtain the amount of information they receive today. Before the introduction to the internet and cell…

a major story in the media at the time, journalists were afraid to speak up on the “red flags” they noticed or were too lazy to do research of their own. The journalists must have taken the public information regarding Kekua from other articles, without doing fact-checks of their own. The only journalists in the situation who behaved ethically were Dickey and Burke. For a simple feeling of skepticism opened up an entire new story. If I were any journalist involved in writing on Te’o and Kekua, I…

winners. As war has evolved throughout time the need for the media to be proper documenters of history has increased. However numerous things fog the lenses of journalists to be fair documenters of history. Biases and nationalistic pride can cloud the objectivity of journalists. It is revealed during the Iraq War the struggles journalists face in their quest to find the truth. Prior to the inventions of radio, television, and the internet; very little information could be obtained by the…

Luther and Radovic’s work “Newspapers Frame Julian Assange Differently” focused on how Julian Assange is identified and whether he is portrayed as a journalist or not according to two U.S. Newspapers and two French Newspapers. The journal article goes into analysis of each newspaper and whether they have commended Assange to be a journalist or not. This source is helpful to the essay topic as it shows different opinions of the two nations, their newspaper’s endorsements and their governments…

citizen journalists stand out as people reporting and gathering evidence without being formally trained in the art of journalism. Citizen journalists create a major amount of stories and evidence that gets broadcast to a wider audience through television news and Internet articles. The major media companies of today sometimes rely on contributions that come from citizen journalists in forming stories. Most recently, accounts of police brutality, racial issues, and other stories trained…

chaos. Honestly though, people around the globe would have no idea how to talk to one another, no idea when the next big social event was happening at a university, and most importantly, no idea what is going on in the world around us. Censoring of journalists is a topic that has been surrounded with much debate because they play such an evident and important role in our lives, which cannot be denied. While being imperative to our society, the government interference with the media has the…