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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 11, 2022 17:20:21 GMT
I wonder how journalism can be taken as philosophy, and can it be?
I want to add that I believe in good and decent journalism. There are plenty of hero journalists, and many of them risked their lives to find some info.
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Post by Triangle on Mar 13, 2022 11:47:13 GMT
A philosophical journalism, what kind of thing it can be?
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 14, 2022 4:51:50 GMT
A philosophical journalism, what kind of thing it can be? Well, that was a question, not a claim. But as a sub-claim or a sub argument I appealed to deeds and heroic acts that happen sometimes in journalism practice. By the way, there are such at the moment: interviewing philosophers, writing articles about philosophers, visiting philosophy conferences (photo&video), and of course some elements of philosophy in journalists books (D. Randall's "The Universal Journalist") |
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Post by Triangle on Mar 14, 2022 10:43:03 GMT
Sounds me like Voltaire, haha.
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Post by Polaris on Mar 14, 2022 12:08:18 GMT
If journalism refers to the act of reporting, then you cannot report a philosophical idea without being philosophical.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 14, 2022 15:09:24 GMT
If journalism refers to the act of reporting, then you cannot report a philosophical idea without being philosophical. It's a truly reasonable and logical thesis. Even authors of one famous philosophical textbook "Philosophy: the Introduction Course" (Popkin & Stroll), said almost the same, that one cannot do philosophy, except doing philosophy, or being philosophical. In my thesis I wanted to underline some practical side of this work, like deeds, acts of sacrificing, ect. |
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Post by Polaris on Mar 14, 2022 20:32:05 GMT
If journalism refers to the act of reporting, then you cannot report a philosophical idea without being philosophical. It's a truly reasonable and logical thesis. Even authors of one famous philosophical textbook "Philosophy: the Introduction Course" (Popkin & Stroll), said almost the same, that one cannot do philosophy, except doing philosophy, or being philosophical. In my thesis I wanted to underline some practical side of this work, like deeds, acts of sacrificing, ect. Even if the philosophical content is misconstrued and misreported by the journalist, there is a valid claim that the wrong conceptualization of meaning in the reader's mind is part of the text's meaning as the text has necessarily allowed for it |
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Mar 14, 2022 21:47:24 GMT
It's a truly reasonable and logical thesis. Even authors of one famous philosophical textbook "Philosophy: the Introduction Course" (Popkin & Stroll), said almost the same, that one cannot do philosophy, except doing philosophy, or being philosophical. In my thesis I wanted to underline some practical side of this work, like deeds, acts of sacrificing, ect. Even if the philosophical content is misconstrued and misreported by the journalist, there is a valid claim that the wrong conceptualization of meaning in the reader's mind is part of the text's meaning as the text has necessarily allowed for it Well, of course, I think the readers are important and essential additional part for any newspapers or magazines (or web issues, etc). A journalist cannot work with no feedback or background knowledge of what's going on with the reader's tastes. Yeah, their auditorium consist of different readers, but the center aim is for an average reader. A way how a reader views and interprets articles may be different also, and depends on many side things. Maybe 50 years ago there were more thinking readers, than now, and 100 years ago people read, nothing but newspapers. Anyway, a peculiar text's reflection is to where journalists intentions are headed mainly, but not all the time. Journalism isn't just typing texts, this is a machine that includes editors, artists, juries, the other journalists, and chief-editors, whose decisions may be the final non-alternative opinion. Sometimes a journalist wishes to wake up his audience, driving their thoughts into the proper direction, but this art requires excellent sophists skills. I'd say in this way the sophistry might be come in handy in a very good way. |
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