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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
anything can be a platform for activism, the limit is your imagination  |
Sure, but I was thinking journalism as a
discipline... shouldn't it be about truth seeking? I figure, if a journalist finds a topic and they start the search, they should be open to whatever they find... and they may find things that go completely against their own viewpoint?...
That's why I don't think it really fits activism at the core. However I do think that a journalist may be employed for a certain type of publication, that may be an activist as a
platform... but the individual journalist can't be an activist, but they can serve "Enlightenment" goals that bring broader attention to issues/analyses in certain areas for example...
If they're doing it activist first, then they're not going to be a good journalist. Would be like an artist who says they have the recipe for the next great thing that will completely be out of the box and so "out there"... when they don't even know the rules they are breaking. And childish people who are stubborn and think they are better than the "Experts" will say "Well, that's just my
style..." etc... rather than to be open to criticism by other peers in that trade...