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October 29, 2004
Some reporters, including me in my early days, actually wear their ignorance as a badge of honor. “Give me any subject and I can write a story within minutes." The original piece has some awfully interesting extra bits, including: Today, the contemporary journalist’s main job, according to Carey, has transformed from this artistic and interpretive role into essentially one of translation and simplification – that is, translating the technical jargon of different government, business, scientific, and social communities into the common vernacular of readers and viewers. That is, transforming complex specialized matters into simple, palatable, and above all, the commercially marketable commodities called stories. It’s in this sense that Carey calls contemporary journalism “technical writing.” And it’s a perfectly natural, and in some ways necessary, response to the development of our highly complex industrial and multicultural world, the very world that Lippmann fretted could ever be adequately covered by journalists. [permalink | tb ] |
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