JOUR 1002 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Pierre Trudeau, Journalism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1002
• Professor: Allan Thompson

Document Summary

Textbook- the elements of journalism- 3rd edition, published in 2014. The world outside and the pictures in our heads. Real environment too big, complex, fleeting for direct experience. Media bring us the world outside our direct experience. People chained inside a cave see only shadows from fire behind. For them, shadows are real, their real world. The media provides people with these shadows and reflections, and people take it as real. What we create is their real world, journalism isn"t the event itself, it is a creation of the event. The way a democratic society has a conversation with itself. In a democratic society journalism is the way we have conversations with ourselves, democratic societies have a free and functioning media, non-democratic societies do not. Example: the professor wrote a story about a family being deported back to pakistan, when their 6 year old daughter would die if they did.