Declaring the Value of Truth
Progressive-era lessons for combatting fake news
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7495673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Creech (0000-0002-0986-6842, Temple University, corresponding author), Amber Roessner (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-279 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-10 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2018.1472526 |
| OpenAlex | W2799379771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 25 |
As fake news has become a growing concern since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, attention to journalism history offers a useful means for rediscovering strategies for both fighting fake news and shoring up journalism’s commitment to the truth. This article argues that truth’s value emerges from the conditions under which journalism is produced, both commercial and cultural. Looking at arguments about fake news published in news reports, columns, letters to editors, and advertisements in major metropolitan papers between 1891 and 1919, we recover the particular ways journalists came to define the problem of fake news, arguing that its emergence as a discursive object offered opportunities for conceiving of and articulating practicable responses across the industry. For contemporary practitioners, scholars, and commentators alike, this means that clearly defining and responding to the problem of fake news in ways that are both critical and contextual offer a means for recovering agency in the face of this crisis
Agency (philosophy · Face (sociological concept · Fake news · Journalism · Media studies · News media · News values · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Law
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False news claims as media criticism
A scoping review of Covid-19 online mis/disinformation in Black communities
Addressing the “Error of our Ways” in Metajournalistic Discourse
Conjecturing Fearful Futures
Typology, Etiology, and Fact-Checking
Telling lies together? Sharing news as a form of social authentication
Fake news on the internet
The disinformation order
Slanted Objectivity? Perceived Media Bias, Cable News Exposure, and Political Attitudes
Teleology and News
The Year That Defined American Journalism
America’s Battle for Media Democracy
On the Relevance of Standpoint Epistemology to the Practice of Journalism
Unchained reaction
Journalists are the confessors of the public', says one Foucaultian
America's Battle for Media Democracy
When facts, truth, and reality are God-terms
Stuart Hall and the theory and practice of articulation
Politics of Nature
Objectivity as Strategic Ritual
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |