{"id":18842,"date":"2017-02-18T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=18842"},"modified":"2017-02-18T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T15:13:32","slug":"a-news-bestiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2017\/02\/18\/a-news-bestiary\/","title":{"rendered":"A news bestiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/02\/fake_news_laptop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18843\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/02\/fake_news_laptop.png\" alt=\"fake_news_laptop\" width=\"450\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/02\/fake_news_laptop.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/02\/fake_news_laptop-150x129.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2017\/02\/fake_news_laptop-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>Fake News<\/strong>: No term has risen into common parlance and then been demoted to total nonsense as quickly as this one. I first heard it used in a self-deprecating way by news satire host Jon Stewart to describe his own work when told that his program was the primary way many people were actually getting their daily news. Stewart recommended following real journalists to fill that role.<\/p>\n<p>The term morphed over the course of the recent presidential campaign to mean deliberately false stories published with the intent to inflame partisan feeling and undermine opponents, or, in the case of many fake news purveyors, just to turn click-bait headlines into Google ad revenue. In its most recent incarnation, a concerted effort is being made to apply it as a label to any reporting one disputes or just doesn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Propaganda<\/strong>: This term has strong negative connotations from the history of WW II and the Cold War, but it can be described in neutral terms as stories originating from official sources designed to advance a state agenda. Whether factual or false, its intent is to persuade the public to support an official position or action, to propagate an official point of view. It is now also used more broadly as an epithet to describe any reporting one disputes or just doesn&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advocacy Journalism<\/strong>: This kind of reporting is also designed to advance an agenda, usually support for a cause or causes an organization or media outlet considers to be of paramount importance, either to the public&#8217;s interest, its own policy goals, or its own self-interest. It mixes factual reporting with editorial content in an effort to persuade the public to take specific action related to those causes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public Interest Journalism<\/strong>: This is what public media outlets like NCPR are tasked to do. This reporting is intended to <em>inform<\/em> the public about facts, events and issues that have an impact on their communities and are relevant to their public concerns as citizens. Rather than deploying information in a way to <em>persuade<\/em> its audience toward a particular end, public interest journalists let facts speak for themselves, without bending them toward any particular public or personal agenda.<\/p>\n<p>To a public interest journalist, anything else can be considered a variety of advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake News: No term has risen into common parlance and then been demoted to total [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions\/18844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}