“Every piece of reporting is the product of choices. Every article approaches its subject from somebody’s perspective. Every digital homepage, printed front page, 30-minute newscast, news alerts blowing up your phone... is the product of decision-making.”
With the country in turmoil over racial injustice, a public health crisis and devastating job losses, it should be no surprise that journalists are caught up in the tumult.Consider just a slice of what’s happened in recent days:
as they tried to do their jobs covering the protests over George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. A photographer was permanently blinded in one eye. Others were bloodied, tear-gassed and pushed around by police. Every piece of reporting — written or spoken, told in text or in images — is the product of choices. Every article approaches its subject from somebody’s perspective. Every digital home page, every printed front page, every 30-minute newscast, every one of the news alerts blowing up your phone, every radio talk show is the product of decision-making.That’s why the simplistic “just the unadorned facts” can be such a canard.
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