Journalism

[Nebulous]

• Would you be interested in studying journalism?
• What do you think of the journalism on news stations like the BBC and CNN?
• Are there government controls on journalism in your country?
• Is journalism always about reporting the truth?
• What do you think of journalists who report in war zones?
• Do you think investigative journalism would be interesting?
• What do you think of the paparazzi?

Discuss

 

[DrLeftover]

When I think of 'war corespondents' I always think of two names:

Radio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KLQxtDOkZA

And

Print

Killing is All That Matters

WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGIERS, December 1, 1942 – From now onward, stretching for months and months into the future, life is completely changed for thousands of American boys on this side of the earth. For at last they are in there fighting.

The jump from camp life into front-line living is just as great as the original jump from civilian life into the Army. Only those who served in the last war can conceive of the makeshift, deadly urgent, always-moving-onward complexion of front-line existence. And existence is exactly the word: it is nothing more.

http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/erniepyle/wartime-columns/killing-is-all-that-matters/

April 19, 1945
OBITUARY
Ernie Pyle Is Killed on Ie Island; Foe Fired When All Seemed Safe
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

GUAM, April, 18--Ernie Pyle died today on Ie Island, just west of Okinawa, like so many of the doughboys he had written about. The nationally known war correspondent was killed instantly by Japanese machine-gun fire.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0803.html

 

[DrLeftover]

Of course, you also had Dr. Hunter S. Thompson....

"the least accurate yet most truthful" reporter that covered the 1972 campaign by Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern's aide.

So the question about 'reporting the truth' is relative, and it was to him as well:

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)