Postjournalism Media News

This chapter focuses on the relationship between mediaas-form and news-as-content. It deals with the statement that journalism is dead, and attempts to trace some of its undoing. The chapter argues that much of what is transmitted throughout the news channels qualifies as “propaganda,” and in particular, “bureaucratic propaganda”. It outlines most Television (TV) news agencies—and certain other news media as well—are making mistakes that are unrecognized, and criteria for observing them fall outside of epistemology and dominant criteria of “good work” employed by most newsworkers. An important part of the perspective of TV newsworkers that has been virtually neglected is the role of visuals, and especially “film” or “tape.” The social construction of news—and especially TV news—is significant for how our lives, experiences, discourse, and worlds are being constructed. News is constructed and constituted through the various media. Children will become interested in news reports when it is socially consequential to do so.