An article printed in the New York Times the other day says that journalists are trying to tone down the language they use when writing about the economy, to make sure that they don't scare people. I always find articles about journalists, and obviously by journalists, amusing. None of my coworkers agreed that journalists are toning it down - one of them even claims that journalists have invented the economy problems.
We talked a little on Monday about the tendency for the press to attack things, do you some journalists are making the economy problem out to be a bigger deal than it is? Do you this is telling people what they want to hear? Or just giving honest news?
I personally don't think most journalists are toning it down... the article mentioned that words like "'Crash,’ ‘panic,’ ‘pandemonium,’ [and] ‘apocalypse'" are being avoided by the Wall Street journal. Those seem extreme, an article can be sensationalist without using the word "apocalypse." Check it out here.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Journalists are always attacked for drawing attention to social maladies and in recent news, financial crisis. I think the public is always quick to blame the media for hyping up disasters, but then again, if not journalists and reporters, who will tell the public the truth? it's definitely a tough call and journalists should be wary of sensationalist language.
Post a Comment