Communitarian journalism and the common good

Lessons from the Catholic Worker

Bibliographic Data

ID7477648
AuthorsSandra L Borden (0000-0002-5262-0311, Western Michigan University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume15
Issue3
Pages273-288
Publication date2013-02-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884913477283
OpenAlexW2112252928
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited8

The US newspaper the Catholic Worker ( CW) is an instructive example for developing a key concept in communitarian journalism theory: the common good. The principal question to be examined in this article is: how can communitarian journalists make constructive use of the inherent tension between particular common good s and the common good? To answer this question, I will refer to the experience of the CW in negotiating two particular tensions: the tensions between spiritual/temporal and between Catholic/American. A secondary question to be explored is: how can communitarian journalism move beyond liberal tolerance in responding to difference in pluralistic societies? To answer this question, I will elaborate on the CW’s practices of hospitality, which have allowed staffers to remain faithful to the paper’s particular conception of the common good while actively engaging with, and learning from, their non-Catholic neighbors

Constructive · Hospitality · Journalism · Media studies · Negotiation · Newspaper · Political science · Principal (computer security · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Law

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