Elements/Methods
Lillian Ross is referring to this when she says: “If you're good at it, you leave no fingerprints."
What is fly-on-the-wall reporting?
Like the two fish in the riddle, we are swimming in an ocean of it but unaware it exists.
What is the media?
Hazlitt: “He was, in the truest sense, a man of original mind, that is, he had the power of looking at things for himself, or as they really were, instead of blindly trusting to, and fondly re-peating what others told him that they were.”
Who was Montaigne?
Rule regarding different words having the same meaning.
What is: There are no synonyms?
Determining when a pile of sand is no longer a pile of sand.
What is the Sorites Paradox?
An element of literary journalism involves spending extensive amount of time with your subjects.
What is immersion?
At its most basic, communication is this.
What is interaction?
He slipped the prison warden a package of money to get access to two prisoners.
Who was Truman Capote?
A television series, film, story or novel characterized by detailed, realistic treatment of professional procedures
What is a procedural?
From the Greek synopsesthai.
What is synoptic?
Capote argued that journalism moves along on this plane.
What is horizontal?
He said, she said reporting in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be equivalent when in fact they are not.
What is false equivalency?
Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, bus rider, and LSD-tripper.
Who is Ken Kesey?
“The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms,” said Hunter S. Thompson.
What is objective journalism?
Hiroshima created in the public’s mind a struggle over mixed thoughts or feelings toward a certain situation.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Capote argued that fiction moves in this direction.
What is vertical?
Collections of outlier viewpoints such as bloggers, journalists, media outlets outside mainstream, legacy media.
What is the Fifth Estate?
He questioned the hypocrisy and incompetence of society and authority figures.
Who is Hunter S. Thompson?
The literal or primary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
People in a group within a group often do not express views that conflict with the majority.
What is spiral of silence?
In Hiroshima a constant reference to the distance from the blast is an example of this.
What is a narrative thread?
Recognition that the thought and understanding of men of other cultures may differ sharply from his or her own.
What is intersubjectivity?
Capote described his work In Cold Blood as a new form of journalism.
What is the nonfiction novel?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes.
What is connotation?
The video on How to Catch an Emu is an example of this.
What is encoding and decoding?