From Now On
the educational technology journal
Vol 16|No 2|December|2006
One article this issue available at http://fno.org
Excerpt below:
Photoshopping Reality:
Journalistic Ethics
in an Age of Virtual Truth
By Jamie McKenzie
The phrase "journalistic ethics" may become an oxymoron
as the media play for this society the role the circus
played for Rome, entertaining rather than educating.
Jumbo shrimp. Journalistic ethics. Airplane food.
Oxymoronic.
How do young people learn what is happening in their
world when the attention of the news cameras swings
after just two days of coverage from North Korea's
nuclear test to the airplane crash of a Yankee player?
The typical news day is dominated by stories that are
sensational or entertaining rather than illuminating.
Consequently, our view of the world and its events
is routinely and daily narrowed, darkened and distorted.
(Continued at http://fno.org/dec06/photoshopping.html)
Jamie McKenzie
Editor, From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal
http://fno.org
Editor, The Question Mark
http://questioning.org
mckenzie@fno.org
360-647-8759
917 12th Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
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