The Journalist in Plato's CaveA provocative study of the complex relations between philosophy and journalism. The discussion addresses such subjects as the essential nature of journalism, news value, the relation of journalism to education, the ideal of a free press, and practical strategies for press reform and the improvement of journalism. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - thcson - LibraryThingMaybe there are good philosophical books about journalism, but I haven't found them yet and this certainly isn't one. The author draws inspiration from Plato's famous cave story, but his feeble ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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The Ideal of a Free Press | 136 |
Journalism and Philosophy | 163 |
Notes | 194 |
Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 205 |
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Fréquemment cités
Page 134 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 142 - Today our society needs, first, a truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account of the day's events in a context which gives them meaning; second, a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism; third, a means of projecting the opinions and attitudes of the groups in the society to one another; fourth, a method of presenting and clarifying the goals and values of the society; and, fifth, a way of reaching every member of the society by the currents of information, thought, and feeling which...
Page 119 - For the troubles of the press, like the troubles of representative government, be it territorial or functional, like the troubles of industry, be it capitalist, cooperative, or communist, go back to a common source: to the failure of self-governing people to transcend their casual experience and their prejudice, by inventing, creating, and organizing a machinery of knowledge.
Page 178 - For such is the order of God's enlightening his church, to dispense and deal out by degrees his beam, so as our earthly eyes may best sustain it.
Page 146 - The thesis of this volume is that the press always takes on the form and coloration of the social and political structures within which it operates. Especially, it reflects the system of social control whereby the relations of individuals and institutions are adjusted.
Page 134 - Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity, than by reading all manner of tractates, and hearing all manner of reason ? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.
Page 55 - ... telephoto mosaic of the human community hour by hour, but its technology is also a mosaic of all the technologies of the community . . . the mosaic of the press manages to effect a complex many-leveled function of groupawareness and participation such as the book has never been able to perform . . . The owners of media always endeavor to give the public what it wants because they sense that their power is in the medium and not In the message or the program.
Page 142 - Freedom carries concomitant obligations; and the press, which enjoys a privileged position under our government, is obliged to be responsible to society for carrying out certain essential functions of mass communication in contemporary society.
Page 120 - Zeno was to formulate theoretically — that a large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law. This common law is "natural...
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Journalist in Plato's Cave |
| Auteur | Jay Newman |
| Éditeur | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0838633498, 9780838633496 |
| Longueur | 208 pages |
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