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| ERIC #: | ED314746 |
| Title: | Common Sense and the Education of Young Journalists. |
| Authors: | Glasser, Theodore L.; Ettema, James S. |
| Descriptors: | Cultural Context; Journalism Education; News Reporting; News Writing |
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| Publication Date: | 1989-11-00 |
| Pages: | 24 |
| Pub Types: | Speeches/Meeting Papers; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher |
| Abstract: | Journalists' knowledge of news is finally reducible to their commonsensical understanding of it, which is to say that common sense is not still another way of dealing with how journalists know news but instead the very foundation on which that knowledge rests. Common sense does not simply entail some shared cognitive facility that enables people to perceive the world in similar ways; it entails a learned and considered response to the world. Taking common sense seriously means that young journalists should come to appreciate the fundamental "immethodicalness", as Geertz called it, of humanity's unassuming efforts to make sense of the world. Accepting common sense as a legitimate and viable system of thought can reclaim epistemology from its reduction to methodology and can therefore honor what inevitably shapes everyday knowledge, including journalists' knowledge of news: social practice. Treating news and journalists' knowledge of it in terms of common sense can recapture the realities of journalism and present those realities in a historical and cultural context that can bring to reporting and newswriting courses the kind of intellectual adventure they seldom engender. (Twenty notes are included.) (RS) |
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| Note: | Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association (75th, San Francisco, CA, November 18-21, 1989). |
| Identifiers: | Common Sense; Journalists; News Values; Topic Selection |
| Record Type: | Non-Journal |
| Level: | 1 - Available on microfiche |
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| Languages: | English |
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