Columbia School of AGIT-PROP!
Posted on 09/25/2017 7:11:01 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Whenever a journalism school claims it has found a new and improved way to train reports, it seems, the result is an even more partisan and ideological training camp than what is already in place. Columbia University leads the way in this sort of pedagogy.
“Independent journalism requires skepticism as a mandatory practice,” Giannina Segnini writes in the Columbia Journalism Review. “No matter how truthfully a presidential administration conducts itself, reporters should always question, contrast, and complement official information to find the closest version to the truth.”
So far so good, but where has she been for the past eight years? Ah, but she’s loaded for bear now.
“But this task is proving to be particularly difficult in the Trump era,” she asserts. “Journalists are facing the challenge of covering one of the most unusual and unreliable governments in modern history: President Trump disseminates lies, twisted facts, and changes in policy in real time through his Twitter account.”
“His advisors send contradictory messages on sensitive national topics and change policies at the last minute, surprising even Cabinet members. Federal data vanishes from the ‘thin cloud’ on matters such as climate change and the environment.”
Segnini directs the new Master of Science in Data Journalism program at Columbia.
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“Federal data vanishes from the ‘thin cloud’ on matters such as climate change and the environment.””
And hillarys emails. But the media isnt interested in that.
How?
Did they dress up as Satan?
Like when Anthony Watts from Watts Up With That wanted to do a site survey of every climate reporting station in the country and soon after he announced his plan the list of locations disappeared from the NOAA website? Oh, wait, that was under Obama.
Money Quote:
<>find the closest version to the truth
1) We have all heard the recording of the guy who broadcast the Hindenberg explosion and fire. We were told the man was later fired for that reporting, because he got emotionally involved in the story. Lesson: report the facts as an impartial observer.
2) In another class, a professor told us about a time he was on the staff of the Washington Post. He and another reporter got a very hot tip from a source, but they were unable to get a second source to confirm. The editor said absolutely we won't print the story without a second, independent source. Lesson: make sure you are right before publishing even a major story. (on the other hand, the professor said they got around the editor: one of the reporters interviewed the other about what he had been told. They then quoted him as a "source close to the white house", since they were only a few blocks from the white house, they were close to the white house. Unofficial lesson: print what you want by lying to your editor).
The Columbia University School of Journalism is now teaching it is OK to not even bother to fool your editor. Just print what you think needs to be printed to support your liberal bias.
I know;>)
Teaching young minds how to manipulate the “Unfair scales.”
There will be a day of reckoning.
Iowa J school ‘71.
The year I graduated, they lost their accreditation...
The Columbia School of Journalism attacked me about 15 years ago. I wear it as a badge of courage!
You should. At their best, they are clueless.
Should have read: I wear it as a badge of honor!
Brain and fingers operate separately. :)
Columbia School of AGIT-PROP!
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