{"id":52,"date":"2005-04-29T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T04:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-04-29T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T04:43:53","slug":"relative-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/fetzer1\/2005\/04\/29\/relative-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Convener:<\/strong> Scott Libin<\/span><\/h3>\n

Participants: <\/strong>Karen, Peggy<\/p>\n

Submitted by: <\/strong>Scott<\/p>\n

That’s a shorthand reference to a concept that is more complicated in its fullest sense.\u00a0 We talked about the potential and limitations of the notion that truth is not always\u00a0as objective a concept as traditional journalism has considered it; that it can be subjective,\u00a0relative and even evolving.\u00a0 A critical question is what role research, fact-checking,\u00a0sourcing and other\u00a0established journalistic practices play in the more\u00a0complex context of community or “citizen-based” journalism.\u00a0 What is the relationship between (to borrow from Kovach and Rosenstiel’s The Elements of Journalism) “assertion and verification”?<\/p>\n

We examined the notion that journalism has moved from an arrogant, at times paternalistic attitude that “news is what I say it is,” in some cases all the way to pandering on the part of news organizations willing to broadcast or publish\u00a0anything people will watch, read or otherwise consume.<\/p>\n

We explored the idea that collective journalism challenges the model of disseminating news from a central source\u00a0outward to many recipients…\u00a0 with a model involving\u00a0a more co-equal relationship among many sources who are also recipients.\u00a0 \u00a0This raises questions about a heightened need for media literacy and smart consumerism — an ability to assess the nature of news according to content and source, benefiting\u00a0from greater\u00a0transparency on the part of journalists.<\/p>\n

Peggy shared a story about skepticism expressed by those who have had unsatisfactory experiences with people who billed themselves as open-space practitioners.\u00a0 She said that those legitimately trained in OS had often considered the concept of certifying practitioners, but had ultimately concluded that to do so would create a barrier that, on the whole, might do more harm than good.\u00a0 She suggested this might parallel\u00a0proposals to certify journalists as professions as the fields of medicine and law do their practitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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