Friday, October 19, 2007
A confession of sorts
Click here for a link to a Dallas Morning News columnist, writing about her own stereotyping and pre-fab storyline for a murder in McKinney. I wish I could say there was some introspection on her part, in terms of the hype that builds around these stories and how the media use such stories to make money. She is one of the reporters who worked on the "all-American girl" murders from our case study. Link to news story.
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I believe that the journalist confession was not really a confession of being wrong simply because she made an excuse for maybe being wrong and not fully admitting her mistake. Everybody makes mistakes but I guess as a journalist she is not suppose to make mistakes because they are all about truth and telling the truth. She made it seem that every murder story has the same m.o. but they don't and she was trying to covered up her mistake by acknowledging the woman's lifestyle and how she was a victim even before she was murder, in some sense. Like I said everybody makes a mistake, but acknowledging your mistake and not trying to make an excuse for you being wrong is too hard for "real journalist."
T. Lewis
It is a pity to see that Journalists can make such a serious mistake especially in the case of Ms. Walker’s death. Journalists are supposed to be working within the ethics of journalism, where are the ethics of Journalism.There are no ethics of Journalism in this case.
Yes! Everyone makes a mistake but this kind of mistake is so grave that no one can comprehend how a professional journalist can make such a grave mistake.
The problem with many journalists is that they like making their own assumptions and write a story based on personal emotions, especially when the story is about the “hard news.” This is where they make most of their money.
It’s time to make innovations in the journalism sector, an innovation that will embrace all the elements of journalism ethics.
Journalist should stop writing stories based on personal assumption and emotion. These devices can seriously injure a journalist’s career and those they serve in pursue for justice and public awareness.
This class should learn a lesson from this story. There is an old say in English “Prevention is better than cure.” In other words, journalists shouldn’t report a story to the public without getting all the facts first.
Journalists just like any other professionalism should engage into inductive reasoning as opposed to deductive reasoning. Get all the facts before publishing the story whether it’s hard news or soft news.
I repeat, prevention is better than cure.
T .Nathaniel
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