Teaching Fairness in Journalism: A Challenging Task
نویسندگان
چکیده
Objectivity has long been contentious in American journalism. Many practitioners call it essential to a news organization’s credibility. Critics, however, hold objectivity is impossible and urge reporters simply to reveal their biases. For educators, teaching objectivity is challenging. Some, seeking a middle ground, instead urge fairness and balance, or counsel “impartiality.” Even such approaches are challenging. This article explores the difficulties, based on a study where students were lectured on fairness, balance, objectivity, and bias. They wrote news stories before and after the lessons. Evaluators found no substantial improvement in fairness and increased bias, however, pointing up the difficulties involved.
منابع مشابه
Learning to Succeed while Teaching to Fail: Privacy in Closed Machine Learning Systems
Security, privacy, and fairness have become critical in the era of data science and machine learning. More and more we see that achieving universally secure, private, and fair systems is practically impossible. We have seen for example how generative adversarial networks can be used to learn about the expected private training data; how the exploitation of additional data can reveal private inf...
متن کاملPlanning Time: A Mediating Technique between Fluency and Accuracy in Task-Based Teaching
Task-based instruction is arguably associated with fostering fluent L2 speech distant from native-like accuracy. Of several methodological options recommended for accounting for accuracy problems of meaning-first approaches to language teaching, planning time has been explored in this study. Three groups of English majors watched a cartoon and narrated their accounts of watching under no-planni...
متن کاملA Survey on Task Scheduling Algorithms in Cloud Computing Environment
Cloud Computing is an emerging technology evolving to the new computing framework. Scheduling of task and allocation of virtualized resources in such a widely distributed dynamic environment is a challenging assignment. Attaining proficiency and providing fairness to tasks execution is the primary consideration of the task scheduling algorithm. The objective of this paper is to give a comparati...
متن کاملTeaching Modal Verbs: Task-based vs. traditional approaches
Abstract Task-based language teaching is considered an effective way to achieve a harmony between grammar and communication. The present study investigates two different ways of teaching modal verbs: task-based versus traditional approaches. To this purpose, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to select 40 homogeneous participants out of a larger population who took this test. The selecte...
متن کامل