Communicado
Boswell is complaining of this in the sentence: “Words cannot describe our feelings. The finer parts are lost, as the down upon a plum.”
What is the inadequacy of words?
Leon Dash’s year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., is an example of this.
What is immersion reporting?
This word was never used to describe journalism until the 1920s.
What is objectivity?
This movie’s message is with adequate information, we are able to distinguish fiction from fact.
What is Rashomon?
Describes ways in which the media promote stereotypes and deny specific identities.
What is Symbolic Annihilation?
Quoting what official sources tell reporters and rather than conducting multiple interviews and a search for independent verification.
What is stenography?
The chaotic writing in Michael Herr’s Dispatches is an example of this.
What is organic form?
Groundhog Day.
What is a pseudo-event?
The algorithms of the internet and social media create niches that reflect one’s own bias.
What is the Filter Bubble?
Marginalized lives lived at the periphery of our vision.
What is “The Other”?
Sales of this produce soared after one early public relations campaign.
What is bacon?
In which journalists pretend to be something they are not while reporting a story.
What is undercover reporting?
Groundhog Day.
What is a movie starring Bill Murray?
To manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
What is gaslighting?
"Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” is an example of this.
What is intersubjectivity?
A video segment made to look like a news report, but is instead created by a PR firm, advertising agency, marketing firm, corporation, or government agency.
What is a video news release (VNR)?
In this form of reporting, John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a black man in the segregation-era South to better understand the experience of being black in America.
What is Undercover Social Justice Reporting?
Edward Bernays’ effort to blanket the charge that President Coolidge looked like he was weaned on a pickle.
What is a pseudo-event?
The “Candid Camera” video is an example of this.
What are the Asch experiments on conformity?
Survival-of-the-fittest world view in economics.
What is Social Darwinism?
A story about a familiar subject to teach an important moral lesson.
What is a parable?
A form of journalism in which press releases, stories provided by news agencies, and other forms of pre-packaged material instead of reported news are used to create articles in newspapers and other news media.
What is churnalism?
Objectivity in journalism is a product of these two things during WWI.
What is propaganda and public relations?
The absence of representation, or underrepresentation, of some group of people in the media.
What is symbolic annihilation?
Indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favor for certain political ideas, cultural happenings – often through social media.
What is virtue signaling?