The truth on journalism: relations between its practice and discourse
This article proposes a theoretically approach over the relations that journalism establishes with the concept of truth. The notion of truth in Foucault leads the debate. This reflection centers on how journalism builds discursive strategies that produces effects of truth on itsreports. The journali...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
2011-04-01
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| Series: | Verso e Reverso |
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| Online Access: | http://www.unisinos.br/_diversos/revistas/ojs/index.php/versoereverso/article/view/789 |
| Summary: | This article proposes a theoretically approach over the relations that journalism establishes with the concept of truth. The notion of truth in Foucault leads the debate. This reflection centers on how journalism builds discursive strategies that produces effects of truth on itsreports. The journalist discourse presents itselfas truthful, although its constructive discourse of the world is a result of rules, practices and values. The debate of “truth” allows us to comprehend the complexity and particularities of journalism as a discursive practice that has reflection in the social knowledge of reality. |
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| ISSN: | 0103-1414 1806-6925 |