Models of Journalism by Peter Bro

Author:Peter Bro [Bro, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Media Studies
ISBN: 9781315295558
Google: JJdNDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-09T03:36:57+00:00

The importance of communication technology II

For other researchers and practitioners, telegraphic technology not only came to influence the structure of journalism but also the syntax and semantics. Ernest Hemingway, who cabled news stories from the European continent home to the Kansas City Star, professed to colleagues that he was getting hooked on “the lingo of the cable.” This is evident also from his later Nobel Prize–winning stories – based on fiction – where he writes in short sentences with a very limited use of adjectives. This lack of value-based comments became a general feature of telegraphic news. “Telegrams are for facts, appreciation and political comment can come by post,” one editor informed his correspondents (cf. Stephens 1988, 258), while Pulitzer bluntly stated, “In America, we want facts. Who cares about the philosophical speculation of our correspondents?” (cf. Chalaby 1996, 311). But there were more than idealistic reasons behind such statements, Williams and Martin explained to their students and readers. “The Associated Press must, of necessity, be not only impartial in its handling of news, but as a co-operative institution must be absolutely non-partisan, non-sectarian and broad. Its clientele of every shade must be satisfied” (1922/1911, 204), and in a similar vein, James Carey has stated that

the telegraph, by creating the wire services, led to a fundamental change in news. It snapped the tradition of partisan journalism by forcing the wire services to generate “objective” new, news that could be used by paper of any political stripe.

(1992/1983, 210)

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