Students will explore their own definition of journalism.
Language Objective: Students will create and present their portfolios to the class by discussing what they have done and how it relates to the given definitions of journalism.
Below are some definitions of journalism.
Please read the definitions. Then, make five connections to what we have been doing in class that relate to the definitions. Describe what we have done in class and talk about how it does or does not follow the definitions of journalism.
Imagine you are making a presentation about what we have been doing in class for your parents or the principal. Create your presentation in Powerpoint or iMovie. Use the stories you have written, the photos you have taken and the work you have done.
You should have at least 5 slides in Powerpoint or five ideas in iMovie. This is a collection, or portfolio, of work you have already completed.
Journalism is:
- listening and interviewing
- researching and reading
- writing and rewriting
- photographing and cartooning
- telling the truth
- double checking the facts
- investigating all sources
- verifying everything
- ignoring and talking
- imagining and creating
- copying and pasting
- downloading and rephrasing
- telling YOUR side of the story
- creating facts to spice up a story
- taking someone's word without checking it out
- listening to only one viewpoint
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. Entertainment – and its cousin “infotainment” – focuses on what is most diverting. Propaganda selects facts or invents them to serve the real purpose: persuasion and manipulation. Fiction invents scenarios to get at a more personal impression of what it calls the truth.
Journalism alone is focused on getting what happened down right.
As Walter Lippmann put it in 1920, “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies.”
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