Assignment 3
Requirment:
Critically examine at least ten news texts and highlight instances in which the dialectic of Realism and Pragmatism can be found.
The realism and pragmatism are two differernt epistemology applied in jounalist’s practice and exercise. The realist in news try to be objective as possible and reflect the society reality. For the pragematist, the market place of ideas is the main concept,jounalist try to banlence the differnent perspectives (). These two method are unspratable and contrdicted at the same time in the process of selecting, presenting and interpreting in news reporting. There are ten examples in news texts that could present the realism and pragmatism simultaneously. In the selcting …show more content…
It is hard to finger our the reliable one to believe, not only on the market place of idea in news but in our daily life, the jounalists also need be more careful to select and identify their resource’s reliablity.
In news reporting, sometimes because of the time, jounalist cannot find the whole story at a limited time, then a pragemtic would be choose to present some of the story. For example, a searious car accident happened in a main road, at first, reporter can only get the information of the location, and how many cars and people involevd, what about the resuce team. To know more about the real happening moment and the reason behaind, jounalsit need to ask for the witnesses, police and resucer. These pieces of information helps to provide audiences’ the main story lines with limited details.
These process actually contain both of realism and pragemtism to reach the facts by providing different viwes from witness and authorited data or summry form police and traffic department. As jounalist also need to consider what is the readers’ needs to read the news, they may select different fouces, the tansport radio may focus on the traffic impacts, the TV may focus more on the accident …show more content…
Taking Chinese two- child policy for example, the news reported ont only about this policy, but the negative and positive influence would be with the excution of this policy. Thses point viwes are not sure to be true, but with certain reliability, because these views are from experts and supported by data and researches. Jounalist always use pragmatic ways to illustrate the events or facts with evidences in realistsm to be closer to truth.
To interprating a event or facts, jounalsts interwvie some experts and insititutions to give their opioins, such as the National Day in 2015, there was a large parada in the Tian anmen suquare, most of the mainstream media reported this event. Some of them invited serval experts and professors with international relationship to interprate the whole event to audiences. This is a another pragmatic way in news broadcast, besides, these live vedio and related background information could help these experts to interprate in a realistic