Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: SanAng Brennan Wood | Judge: Joshua George
News has hit a Commercialization Crisis – corporate interests directly undermine objective and truthful reporting.
Omenugha et Al 8, Kate Azuka, and Majority Oji. "News commercialization, ethics and objectivity in journalism practice in Nigeria: strange bedfellows?." Revista Estudos em Comunicação-Communication Studies (2008). (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)Elmer
What is news commercialization? UNESCO (1980:152) alluded to the commercialization
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raises ethical questions and challenges the notion of objectivity in Nigerian news reports.
Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer
NEWS COMMERCIALISATION IS A THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT News is no longer news, as
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its policies and programmes, even when they are inimical to public interest.
Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer
OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM BUILDS DEMOCRACY Journalism has a lot to contribute to the development of democracy
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an unfettered flow of information from the government, through the pluralistic media.
Oberiri 16, Apuke Destiny. "Journalists’ perception of news commercialization and its implication on media credibility in Nigeria." World Scientific News 55 (2016): 63-76. (Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Taraba State University)Elmer
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY "The mass media ought to play the role of gathering
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journalist engages in news commercialization the more it loses its trust and credibility.
Sands 20 John Sands 8-4-2020 "Americans are losing faith in an objective media. A new Gallup/Knight study explores why." https://knightfoundation.org/articles/americans-are-losing-faith-in-an-objective-media-a-new-gallup-knight-study-explores-why/ (Researcher at the Knights Foundation)Elmer
Americans have high aspirations for the news media to be a trusted, independent watchdog
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say those outlets are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain opinion.
Hamilton and Krosnick 20 James Hamilton and Jon Krosnick 2-27-2020 "Stanford researchers discuss journalism and democracy in lead up to Super Tuesday" https://news.stanford.edu/2020/02/27/journalism-and-democracy/ (Hamilton also directs the Stanford Journalism Program, is a co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Krosnick also directs the Political Psychology Research Group and is a professor, by courtesy, of psychology.)Elmer
How important is an objective media for a functioning democracy? Hamilton: Objectivity was
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up with more disparate views of reality than was the case decades ago.
Diamond 19, Larry. Ill winds: Saving democracy from Russian rage, Chinese ambition, and American complacency. Penguin Books, 2019. (professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University, PhD in Sociology)Elmer
The most obvious response to the ill winds blowing from the world’s autocracies is to
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proliferating weapons of mass destruction, or threatening the territory of their neighbors.
Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risks
PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock’s 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans’ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer
Consequences human survival 12. Even if the 'other' side does NOT launch in response
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course the immediate post-nuclear results for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well.
Jones 9 Alex Jones 9-15-2009 "An Argument Why Journalists Should Not Abandon Objectivity" https://niemanreports.org/articles/an-argument-why-journalists-should-not-abandon-objectivity/ (Alex S. Jones, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.)Elmer
In their book "The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the
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akin to dismissing trial by jury because it isn’t perfect in its judgments.
Even if objectively is not perfectly achievable, striving for it is uniquely valuable – this card is fantastic and answers all of their turns.
White 13 Aidan White 1-15-2013 "Journalism’s Era of Change, but Objectivity Still Plays a Critical Role" https://web.archive.org/web/20130129094105/http://www.ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/2013/journalismE28099s-era-of-change-but-objectivity-still-plays-a-critical-role/ (Founder of the Ethical Journalism Network)Elmer
That everyone understands objectivity differently makes it a dangerously fuzzy concept, easy road kill
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and fair when the reporter is choosing to correct one fact over another."