« Cream Redux | Main | Rita » Truth is elusiveJay Rosen believes that journalists have such a fear of "getting it wrong" factually that they no longer try to tell the truth, according to Ethan Zuckerman. As a response to the perpetual fear of being wrong, journalists have stopped taking responsibility for the truth claims of their reports, just that they’ve followed the rituals correctly: “We called you for your reaction on the story. We followed our rules.” These rituals - many of which focus on reporting what a person said without an analysis of whether it’s factually correct - are designed to prove “the political innocence of the press”.Bloggers, on the other hand, can be truthful. Truth is elusive; I would argue that you're more likely to approach it from an aggregate of many sources. Ethan and Jay are among those who seem to have a powerful belief in what they know, but as the sages say, everything you know is wrong. jon posted this at 7:53 AM |
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