Ronda Hauben on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:38:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Goal of journalism should be to speak to citizen |
There was a wonderful panel at Columbia U on Friday about the nature of journalism. I wrote an article summarizing the panel for OhmyNews that I thought folks on this list would find of interest.. Ronda Business Wrong Model for Journalism Goal of journalism should be to speak to citizens http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=5&no=286231&rel_no=1 Four professional journalists appeared at Columbia University in New York in a panel on "Reporting War".(1) Charles Glass, an American journalist, set the tone for the panel by describing the destruction of journalism in the U.S. by the business culture it is embedded in. Other invited speakers on the panel were the American journalist, Seymour Hersh, British journalist Robert Fisk, and John Pilger, an Australian filmmaker and journalist writing for British and other publications. Glass entered the journalist profession 35 years ago, viewing it as "a higher calling." His goal was "to tell the truth." While he commended the other journalists sharing the panel with him as exceptions, he maintained that this ideal has been debased in American journalistic practice. The professional ethic of the journalist has become the victim of a business culture. He explained, "We are all content or service providers to customers.... Our moral obligation to tell the truth is too often over-riden by the commercial concerns to do what the employer wants." # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net