Journalism - Part One
If not, why not?
Perhaps you usually associate journalism with power.
Most power is in the hands of charlatans, not good citizens. The same has been true throughout history.
Indeed, for much of history, citizens were not regarded as citizens at all by people with political power, however good or bad those citizens may have been in terms of morality.
How do you prefer to define quality journalism?
How do you prefer to provide quality journalism?
The media means many things to many people.
What does it mean to you, and why?
What does civility mean to you, and why?
What have you been learning through Civility Today over the past few months?
How do you prefer to show your support for quality journalism?
Have you thought much about power and how it is abused?
Have you thought much about powerlessness and how it arises?
What is the most suitable role for real journalists in a democracy?
What is the most suitable role for real journalists in a non-democracy?
Are you familiar with public interest journalism?
Do you regard support for quality journalism to be a form of well-informed investing?
Do you regard civility to be a form of, or even the essence of, well-informed kindness?
What do you know about journalists?
What do you know about enlightenment and enlightened journalism?
You may, for example, know that enlightened journalists prefer not to use journalese, headlinese, loaded language or unnecessary distracting and confusing figures of speech.
If you have been investing in the quality analysis of events, particularly those involving military interventions, what have you discovered about the meaning of defence in practice?
Have you thought carefully about journalism and civility in relation to disability?
Do you usually associate journalism with empiricism?
Do you usually associate journalism with the testing of hypotheses?
Do you usually associate journalism with political pleasantness?
Voters tend to vote for hope. They often experience despair instead.
Consumers buy dreams. They often experience nightmarish debts instead.
Investing in simple living is brave. It conflicts with many cultural and economic assumptions about success.
What do you know about the economics of mounting a legal defence in various circumstances?
What do you know about the economics of mounting a legal attack in various circumstances?
What do you know about the economics and politics of gaining a legal qualification in order to make money and win political power?
What do you know about economics and how the subject is usually reported by journalists?
What do you know about law and how the subject is usually reported upon by journalists?
When you define the meaning of defence, and do you take civility, citizenship, human rights and the public interest adequately into account?
How do you usually assess the way defence is usually reported upon through the mass media?
How do you prevent your reporting from being emotive or otherwise deceptive?
What are you seeking to know about this news resource, and why?
Blatant wrongdoing in politics is often defended by the perpetrators as being 'within the rules'.
And the same applies in finance.
What do you know about the reporting of scandals, whether to the relevant authorities or by journalists?
What sort have training have you received in the investigation and reporting of possibly scandalous practices?
What have been your contributions to civility today and Civility Today?
How have you been promoting both?
With whom have you been discussing both?
What do you know about the Civility Journalism Circle?
How do you usually protect whistleblowers and their methods of acquiring and securing evidence?
How do you usually identify wrongdoing?
What does being accountable mean to you?
What do you know about moral responsibility?
What do you know about failures of accountability in Australia?
What have you discovered about aged care in Australia?
What have you discovered about institutional abuse in Australia?
What have you discovered about tax evasion by rich, rude Australians?
What have you discovered about the effects of the proceeds of crime on house prices in Australia?
How do you usually follow money trails?
What do you know about the disregard for necessary privacy by media organisations and by political parties in Australia, with or without effective legal requirements?
Privacy supports mental health, in a similar way to the presumption of innocence.
Participation in the public sphere does not support mental health, especially in the absence of societal and parliamentary civility. It may or may not support justice, either.
Yet the public sphere is often the only route to justice for people with urgent needs often ignored by governments and the overly privileged. This particularly applies to the urgent needs of specifically disadvantaged women, children and other people.What do you know about gates and gateways and gatekeeping and gatekeepers in relation to investigations and reporting?
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