{"id":47192,"date":"2017-10-26T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=47192"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:27:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:27:28","slug":"journalism-for-tomorrow-not-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/journalism-for-tomorrow-not-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism for Tomorrow — NOT Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit that I am very biased in my daily intake of news. In the era of the internet I have the freedom to choose my own channels. Like this one.<\/p>\n

The radio is always on when I drive to work in the morning, but I usually only pay attention when there is information about traffic jams and accidents. Very rarely does the local radiostation cover news of interest to me, you know: climate, pollution, sustainable energy, ordinary stuff. However, this morning I heard something that was real news to me.<\/p>\n

As it turns out Aarhus, Denmark is home for The Constructive Institute<\/a> with focus on factual and balanced news. In the light of the new poll<\/a> that shows that 46% of US voters believe the media is making up stories about Trump, this is a fresh breeze.<\/p>\n

From the speakers of my car radio the voice of founder and director of The Constructive Institute Ulrik Haagerup makes a surprising point: “The goal of journalism is not just to be critical. The goal of journalism is to inform<\/em> by being critical”.<\/p>\n

It is always nice to start the day with a bit of sanity in a world of insanity, and when I got home after work I checked their website and found that their aim to promote this method of balanced constructive journalism just might be an antidote to the insanity:<\/p>\n

Constructive journalism is a response to increasing tabloidization, sensationalism and negativity bias of the news media today. It is an approach that aims to provide audiences with a fair, accurate and contextualised picture of the world, without over emphasising the negative and what is going wrong. While a healthy dose of negativity in the press is undoubtedly necessary, the chronic overexposure of negative constitutes a hidden media bias that has an erosive effect on the societies we live in.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you. As I write this, the institute is host to an international conference<\/a> on constructive journalism with attendance of\u00a0reporters, editors, media executives, scientists and politicians at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n

One of the speakers is Steven Pinker<\/a>, and I am quite annoyed that I had not heard about this event in time. I would have loved to hear him talk about the surprising decline of violence and suffering in the world as a whole.<\/p>\n

Still, I am glad I had the radio on.<\/p>\n

\"therealbias\"<\/p>\n

Photo credit:\u00a0constructiveinstitute.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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