Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Langham Creek Justin Schnitzer | Judge: Ishan Rereddy
The disadvantage is exclusion
Norms of objectivity are used to exclude minority reporters
Shapiro 21 Shapiro, Ivor – Emeritus professor of the school of journalism @ Ryerson University in Toronto, using facts and logic to destroy the racists. “Skepticism, Not Objectivity, Is What Makes Journalism Matter.” The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2021, theconversation.com/skepticism-not-objectivity-is-what-makes-journalism-matter-158777. BRACKETS FOR CLARITY CHS AD
“’That reporter is too biased to cover this story.’ It’s a too
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their life experiences? Is this degree of balance or impartiality even possible?”
White reporting of racialized issues is racist
Johnson et. al. 11 Johnson, Kirk A., et al. “Speaking of Looting: An Analysis of Racial Propaganda in National Television Coverage of Hurricane Katrina.” Howard Journal of Communications, vol. 22, no. 3, 1 Aug. 2011, pp. 302–318., doi:10.1080/10646175.2011.590404. CHS AD
- Slightly underhighlighted
“In this content analysis of television broadcasts in the first week
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2009; Thevenot, 2005–2006) that Katrina news propagated racism.”
Racism from the media spills up to the public
Van Dijk 12 Van Dijk, Teun A. “The Role of the Press in the Reproduction of Racism.” Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 19 Mar. 2012, pp. 15–29., doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-0950-2_2. CHS AD
“Biased news production and news reports would be pretty harmless if they would not
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representations of blacks in Brazilian telenovelas (D’Adesky 2001; Van Dijk 2009b).”
Racism has terrible impacts
Lewsley 20 Lewsley, Joanne. “The Effects of Racism on Health and Mental Health.” Medical News Today, MediLexicon International, 28 July 2020, www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/effects-of-racism. CHS AD
“Racism, or discrimination based on race or ethnicity, is a key contributing
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. The paper also underlined how verbal and physical assault can cause PTSD.”