Removed: Occupy Wall street article | World news. This article is the subject of a legal complaint from Peter Grossman. This past Sunday, a deputation from Occupy Wall Street crossed the bridge from Manhattan and brought its protest to the Brooklyn residence of one of New York's "vultures" This type of vulture doesn't roost in a tree, but in a swish brownstone. A "vulture" is a financial speculator who, as we recently reported, gets his hands on debts owed by desperately poor nations. The Brooklyn "vulture" targeted by OWS and Friends of the Congo is Peter Grossman. Two weeks ago, the Guardian exposed him as a financier who is demanding the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the world's poorest nation, pay $100m to the hedge fund he manages, FG Hemisphere.
Grossman, tipped off about the demonstration, was apparently absent from his brownstone. Police attended, but were content to spectate, hands off. The OWS marchers had come at the call of Friends of the Congo. I don't think the 1% can be pleased. And it's spreading. Occupy Wall Street class comes too soon - The Daily Targum: Editorials: Students at New York University will have the opportunity to take classes next semester on Occupy Wall Street. Undergrads will have the option of enrolling in “Why Occupy Wall Street? The History and Politics of Debt and Finance.” A seminar at the graduate level will also be offered. Up until now, the movement has had a healthy amount of supporters and detractors alike, with the former heralding it as a movement based in equality and justice and the latter accusing participants of looking for handouts.
With the creation of classes at the prestigious NYU, however, the movement gains at least a little bit of validation, albeit not enough to silence the critics. But does the movement deserve this level of recognition just yet? We’d like to think it might be a little too early for that. There is no doubt that Occupy Wall Street is a legitimate movement at this point. Bernard Madoff Totally Gets Occupy Wall Street. Luna: Opposition to for-profit education providers is like Occupy Wall Street (video) « IdahoReporter.com.
Note: This is part 1 of a five-installment series of interviews with Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna. The series runs Monday-Friday, Dec. 12-16. Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna believes that opponents of having for-profit companies deliver online school courses in Idaho have a mentality not unlike protestors in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Luna also said that those worried about for-profit education companies providing online school courses might be anti-capitalist in nature. The superintendent was interviewed last week by IdahoReporter.com. “This undertone that somehow because for-profit companies are going to want to compete for educations dollars is the end of public education as we know it, that is an Occupy Wall Street argument that we see going on all across the country,” Luna said, “where there’s this attack on capitalism and an attack on profits.”
Occupy Wall St. protesters march around Goldman Sachs downtown. Jefferson Siegel for New York Da Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters assembe on Church St. in Manhattan to march to the Goldman Sachs headquarters on West St. Some dressed as squid in reference to a Rolling Stone article that the investment bank. "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. " Occupy Wall Street protesters donned squid costumes and marched to the Goldman Sachs headquarters downtown yesterday to call on the banking giant to pay more in taxes. “We’re standing in solidarity against an investment firm that was highly responsible for the economic crisis,” said demonstrator Rick McAllister, 22. Jackie Sheeler, 54, said she was marching to try to end money’s power in politics.
“Goldman Sachs defrauds people ruthlessly,” said Sheeler, a teacher from West Harlem. No arrests were reported. Occupy Movement Shows Potential of Live Online Video. Social norms - Michael Hechter, Karl-Dieter Opp. In Defence of a Supposedly Outdated Notion: The Range of Application of Journalistic Objectivity | Gauthier | Canadian Journal of Communication. Gilles Gauthier (Université Laval) If thought is to go far enough, the imagination must go further. If the will is to accomplish enough, it must imagine more. Gaston Bachelard, La formation de l'esprit scientifique Among all the clichés that clutter up human minds, there is one which gives rise to a stir of approval in its audience each time it is sententiously pronounced: "Objectivity does not exist--in reporting.
" Few journalists or journalism scholars today would hazard calling upon the principle or ideal of objectivity. In the present paper, I confront the cliché that objectivity in journalism is useless, illusory, or artificial. In working towards this definition, my first step is to attempt to identify the aspects of journalism involving objectivity. My approach is essentially negative: first, in a series of propositions, I shall identify those aspects of journalism to which matters of objectivity cannot apply. 1. 2. This idea is not new in itself. 3. 4. 5. Note References. Questioning Journalistic Objectivity.
Journalism, as we've known it, has been mourned deeply over the last few years. The Internet has changed everything. "Citizen journalism," a phrase that still inspires dirty looks at most journalism conferences, has blurred the lines between objectivity and subjectivity, paid and unpaid labor, news and opinion. It gives veteran journalists agita to imagine totally untrained people messing around in their exclusive, albeit hardscrabble, club. With all this reshaping and shifting of our industry, all this talk about changing financial models and publishing structures, now is an opportune time to question one of the field's most defended values: objectivity.
This issue has been particularly present for me as I'm on the final stages of writing a book -- a collection of profiles of ten people under 35 who are doing interesting social justice work. And I told them that I would show them drafts and give them a chance to give me feedback and correct inaccuracies before the pieces become public. A Comparative Analysis: Objective & Public Journalism Techniques. Labels of elitism and egalitarianism are useless because there are elements of each in both objective and public journalism.
Each advocates a different level of constraint on the press. The past 50 years have witnessed much scholarship and debate regarding the practice of objective journalism.(1) This discussion has been intensified with the advent of public journalism, whose advocates boldly assert that objective journalism is fundamentally flawed.(2) Not surprisingly, much heated debate has emerged in which proponents of either journalistic practice accuse the other of being negligent, misleading or culpable in the erosion of democracy. Of key concern to this paper is the propensity for participants in this debate to talk past one another - to be too quick to judge and dismiss the other practice as intrinsically broken, and thus, something to be immediately recanted and forsaken. Focus on process Achievement Study of technique The study of technique is the study of process.
Focus on means. Journalism Ethics: Objectivity. In the chapter for last week, Merrill discussed all the ways that journalists can, inadvertently or deliberately, become propagandists -- the opposite of objective observers and reporters. In this week's chapter on general semantics, he says that close attention to the use of language is one way journalists (and everyone else, too) can come as close as humanly possible to truthful communication. General semantics is a way of looking at how people use language and how the words they choose affect human behavior. Probably its best-known idea is that "the map is not the territory.
" That is, the word we use to define or describe something is just that -- a word. It is not the thing itself. From that idea, we get a variety of other useful things to remember about words and how we can use them to convey meaning that corresponds as well as possible to reality. What does all this have to do with objectivity? Can Reporters Handle the Truth? | The New Individualist. April 2007 -- On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many pictures the news service circulated in covering the month-long conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Within hours, bloggers noticed that the two plumes of smoke looked suspiciously alike: a single plume had apparently been duplicated by photo-editing software, making the bomb damage seem worse than it was. Within another few hours, Reuters had acknowledged the error and fired the photographer, a Lebanese free-lancer named Adnan Hajj. An innocent error?
The Hajj affair was one small skirmish in another war: the perennial—and, mercifully, less violent—war about media bias. Meanwhile, a small industry of media watchdogs and activists track the major media for signs of false or slanted content. My intent here is not to join the media bias war as a combatant. Examples like this show only that a point of view can lead to nonobjective coverage.
Objectivity & Balance: Today's Best Practices in American Journalism. Objectivity in Journalism. DAVID BROOKS There is some dispute about whether objectivity can really exist. How do we know the truth? Well, I’m not a relativist on the subject. I think there is truth out there and that objectivity is like virtue; it's the thing you always fall short of, but the thing you always strive toward.
And by the way, I think that opinion journalists have to be objective just as much as straight reporters. Opinion journalists, too, have to be able to see reality wholly and truly. As George Orwell said, they have to face unpleasant facts just as much as anybody else. What are the stages of getting to objectivity? The second stage is modesty. The same thing has to happen for journalists. The third stage of objectivity is the ability to process data — to take all the facts that you've accumulated and honestly process them into a pattern. The fourth stage of objectivity is the ability to betray friends. The fifth stage of objectivity is the ability to ignore stereotypes. David Brooks. Public Journalism and the Problem of Objectivity.htm. Myth and Pursuit——Reflecting on Objectivity in Journalism--《Journal of Hangzhou Normal University(Social Sciences Edition)》2008年05期.