O publisher do New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. aproveitou uma palestra na Universidade do Kansas para tecer alguns comentários sobre a crescente aproximação entre o jornalismo e a dita 'programação de realidade'.
O texto parece-me muito pertinente, sobretudo porque - vindo de onde vem - insiste na defesa dos valores que fazem do Jornalismo uma actividade indispensável a uma sociedade livre e participada.
Alguns excertos:
"(...)news consumers have become more skeptical and cynical about what they see and hear and read and have a greater tendency to believe that all reporting is distorted by political bias and by larger commercial interests".
"What is worse, in fact, much worse, is that a sizable portion of our audience considers news to be just another form of reality programming (...) and as people become more detached from the national sources — from traditional sources of information, and as it becomes increasingly difficult to find trustworthy analysis, people are pushed in two directions. Understandably some completely withdraw from what is happening around them (...)Another manifestation of this social alienation is the rapid proliferation of superficial cynicism. It is far easier to condemn an entire political and social structure than to understand and to enhance it".
"Unfortunately, or ultimately rather, journalism must be about news. It must seek to educate, inform and illuminate. It cannot be the terribly uninformed shriek of opinion, nor can it be the modern day equivalent of the Roman circuses, where we publicly and savagely humiliate our latest press victim".
Vale a pena perder uns minutos com o texto todo. Aqui.
Publicado por lasantos em setembro 15, 2004 07:50 PM