Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Halfway wrong
Article on the failings of media religion coverage is surprisingly sensible. Gets most points right.
One point is halfway wrong and fully thought-provoking.....
“Journalism is a craft where it’s often better not to know too much because then you ask questions with more informative answers,” Socolovsky said. “But religion journalism is different. There are nuances people need to understand that ordinary reporters don’t always know how to get to if they don’t have a good understanding of the institutions they’re covering.”Not knowing too much = better questions? Sounds plausible but it's actually the biggest problem. When you know nothing about a subject, you don't know which questions are worth asking and you can't tell the difference between useful and fake answers. Google and Wiki can't help you sort out true vs false unless you have the mindset, the feel, of a specific area of knowledge. The blogosphere defeated the mediasatans because the blogosphere brings a huge variety of knowledges and experiences AND TEMPERAMENTS to bear on a subject. Even before they were completely satanic, journalists were uniform in several ways. All literary types, no engineering or scientific types. All extroverts and idealists, no introverts or realists. One type of brain, one type of mood. ¶ 3:49 AM
