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Journalism and Truth
Tom Goldstein
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Description for Journalism and Truth
Paperback. Looking at how journalism has changed over time, this book explores how the long-standing and untrustworthy conventions developed. It examines why reliable standards of objectivity and accuracy are critical not just to a free press but to the democratic society it informs and serves. It offers an account of how journalism and truth work. Series Editor(s): Abrahamson, David. Series: Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
The complaint is all too common: I know something about that, and the news got it wrong. Why this should be, and what it says about the relationship between journalism and truth, is exactly the question that is at the core of Tom Goldstein's very timely book. Other disciplines, Goldstein tells us, have clear protocols for gathering evidence and searching for truth. Journalism, however, has some curious conventions that may actually work against such a goal. Looking at how journalism has changed over time - and with it, notions about accuracy and truth in reporting - Goldstein explores how these ... Read more
The complaint is all too common: I know something about that, and the news got it wrong. Why this should be, and what it says about the relationship between journalism and truth, is exactly the question that is at the core of Tom Goldstein's very timely book. Other disciplines, Goldstein tells us, have clear protocols for gathering evidence and searching for truth. Journalism, however, has some curious conventions that may actually work against such a goal. Looking at how journalism has changed over time - and with it, notions about accuracy and truth in reporting - Goldstein explores how these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Medill School of Journalism Visions of the American Press
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124332
SKU
V9780810124332
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About Tom Goldstein
Tom Goldstein is a professor of journalism and mass communications and director of the Mass Communications Program at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The News at Any Cost (Touchstone, 1986) and A Two-Faced Press (Twentieth Century Fund, 1986), co-author of The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well (California, 2002), and the editor of Killing the ... Read more
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