Personal Notes (2)

Question 1

objectivity

• also known as ?
• one who is ?
• objectivity is what delineates journalism from ?
• those who try to achieve it ?

Answer 1

• bias
• detached, neutral, impartial , and unbiased
• other forms of mass comm.
• get closer than those who don’t

Question 2

objectivity came about in ?
problems besetting journalism at the time
-
-
-growing faith in ? and diminishing trust in
-increasing expressions of ?

Answer 2

• 1920’s after WW1
• yellow journalism
• competition
• science/rationality of humans
• diverse and dissenting opinions held by public

Question 3

answer was to ?

• …method
• evidence not
• testing rather than ?
• concluding rather than
• scientific leads to?

Answer 3

borrow from hard science

• scientific method
• conjecture
• guessing
• imagining
• understanding

Question 4

misconception about objectivity ?

-what NOT what

Answer 4

mechanically balanced

-best and most honest judgment / looking at it equally from both sides

Question 5

fairness and balance

fairness: manner in which
balance: manner in which

Answer 5

journalists interact with people

journalists gather and present information

Question 6

most often principle of fairness is applied to people who are ?
-example

Answer 6

unwillingly thrown into spotlight

-amish

Question 7

independence vs.?
-conflicts of interest are NOT mere
-they are situations in which journalists ? 
-arise because of
-come in two flavors 
1.
2.

Answer 7

conflicts of interest

• BIAS
• misuse professional influence to serve personal interests
• money and power
  1. real
  2. perceived (independent journalists burdened with bias perceived bias of owners)

Question 8

practices to counteract problem of real and perceived conflicts

real:
perceived: attempts at
- most common solution
- some goes as far as to ?
- actively avoid

Answer 8

• employment contracts and employee handbooks
• transparency
• simple disclosure
• restrict journalists free time
• conflicts of interest

Question 9

privacy vs. ?
-where journalists have most trouble is with ? 
-make clear distinctions between ? 
right to know:
need to know:

Answer 9

publics right to know

• not clearly public not clearly private situations
• right to know and need to know
• purview of the law
• ethics

Question 10

sensitivity vs.?
-considering ?
-principle most commonly in play with ? 
-often in ?
easiest way to deal ?
-problem with this ? 
those who get too intimately involved with community at risk for ?

Answer 10

• responsibility to inform
• welfare of everybody else involved in intensely emotional situations
• disturbing info
• no win situation (coward or fiend)
• put yourself in their shoes
• only deals with sensitivity
• boosterism

Question 11

verification and attribution:
-verify ? and attribute it to a?
what made it difficult
journalists mistakes ?

Answer 11

info you publish / source

• blogosphere
• amplified

Question 12

avoid deception and ?
-omissions become ethical dilemma when they leave out ? for ?
-what is said?
internet has made it so that there is a demand for ?
-harder for journalists to decide?

Answer 12

omission and obfuscation

• important facts/ titillating info
• off the record or in the background
• less omission = value added journalism (extended interviews etc)
• decide what to omit

Question 13

obfuscation : act of ?

• related to use of ?
• obfuscate in hopes they will become
• do so to protect

Answer 13

obscuring or hiding information

• anonymous sources
• identity of vulnerable

Question 14

obfuscation is good and bad:
can report while
-undermine
-cant judge ?

Answer 14

• respecting privacy
• trust and veracity
• motives of sources

Question 15

worst sins of journalism

Answer 15

fabrication and plagiarism

Question 16

journalistic deception is only justifiable when it is the only way to ?

Answer 16

gather information

-mirage tavern (exposed )

Question 17

correction and clarification

-most common moral problem is ?

Answer 17

overcoming human pride