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We're thrilled to continue our #WeAreListening campaign to amplify diverse voices in our #ASCJ community — especially those historically unheard in society.
In honor of #APIDA Heritage Month, we're listening to Asian storytellers in media & comm; students, faculty, alums. 👨🏻♥️👂🏻
In honor of #APIDA Heritage Month, we're listening to Asian storytellers in media & comm; students, faculty, alums. 👨🏻♥️👂🏻
We're thrilled to listen to trailblazer @mayleeasia, #ASCJ journalism instructor and host of @TheMayLeeShow. The first Korean-American anchor for @CNN, she wants to see the media "better depict Asian women." 👩🏻♥️👂🏻#WeAreListening
We're thrilled to listen to @ilavinash, #ASCJ grad student in digital social media. "The first time I felt represented was when I saw New Girl. It features an Indian character with a complex background, with the same facets as any other woman." 👩🏻♥️👂🏻#WeAreListening @New_GirlTV
Reporting is a verb. I wonder whether there is a correlation beaten people who understand how reporting works (if you haven’t spent a day with a beat reporter, you do NOT know) and trust that the press will try to get things right. (Related: reporters are one part of “the media
In conversations with people who are highly skeptical of “the media,” I’ve found that many have an impoverished or Hollywood-style sense of what real reporting entails... from the moment you conceive of a potential story to the moment it is published.
Much of the pushback focuses on the frame a story gets, which is the most performative and least empirical part of the process. But to actually watch a good beat reporter call 30 people a day, and try to puzzle through competing equities and sources’ priors - is a wonder.
I think I convinced my students that there was no JFK assassination conspiracy, but I might equally have convinced them I retain too much useless trivia. NB: also , we watched how Lee Harvey Oswald was killed on live TV. And Cam Ne. A bracing national reporting class! #ascj
And we began with Eisenhower’s farewell address, which I still think is the best (and most honest) presidential speech of the past 70 years for the way it soberly predicted the future and acknowledged hard truths. #ascj
I will say: as wary of military intervention and a standing army as he was, Eisenhower became the first of (every) President to fetishize the use of the CIA (tiny footprint, secret agency) to deal with enormously complex foreign policy challenges.
