The paradoxical situation of journalistic knowledge: among the callousness and the leading role of the knowledge produced by the news in modern societies

Abstract

The knowledge of journalism debate produces a paradox: on the one hand, it is the most appropriate way to meet the present and historical events in modern societies, on the other hand, is considered insufficient knowledge, fragmented and ideologically committed to the social reality . In this article we ask: Which is, after all the place of knowledge generated for journalism in modern society? Let's get into the discussion in the context of the crisis of traditional knowledge and science as truth. Its effects reach particularly the form of journalism and creates a dilemma: whether journalism can not be legitimized in scientific terms would then be closer to the knowledge based on common sense? For that, compared two theoretical perspectives on knowledge news: the German Tobias Peucer, seventeenth century, and the American Robert Park, of the twentieth century. In this comparison we are interested in observing the changes, but especially that which remains in journalistic practices to finally establish the ethics of journalistic knowledge.

Knowledge journalistic; Accounts Metarrelatos; Legitimacy; Tobias Peucer; Robert Park