Reporting on Reporting: How Content is Changed by Contexts

An informed electorate is crucial to an effective democracy. It is the duty of the Fourth Estate to inform this electorate with the utmost objectivity. Pure objectivity, however, is impossible. Journalists are human and words incontrovertibly reflect a perspective. In order to be as informed as poss...

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Main Author:	Beer, Daniel
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Published:	Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
Subjects:	Journalism Journalism Studies
Online Access:	http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1081 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2246&context=cmc_theses

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spelling	ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-scholarship.claremont.edu-cmc_theses-22462015-05-20T03:33:28Z Reporting on Reporting: How Content is Changed by Contexts Beer, Daniel An informed electorate is crucial to an effective democracy. It is the duty of the Fourth Estate to inform this electorate with the utmost objectivity. Pure objectivity, however, is impossible. Journalists are human and words incontrovertibly reflect a perspective. In order to be as informed as possibly, the limits of objectivity — or contexts influencing journalists — must be well understood. This thesis explores four different contexts that influence journalists and, thus, the content they produce. 2015-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1081 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2246&context=cmc_theses © 2015 Beer J Daniel default CMC Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont Journalism Journalism Studies
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description	An informed electorate is crucial to an effective democracy. It is the duty of the Fourth Estate to inform this electorate with the utmost objectivity. Pure objectivity, however, is impossible. Journalists are human and words incontrovertibly reflect a perspective. In order to be as informed as possibly, the limits of objectivity — or contexts influencing journalists — must be well understood. This thesis explores four different contexts that influence journalists and, thus, the content they produce.
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Reporting on Reporting: How Content is Changed by Contexts

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