by Arielle K. Botter
Traditionally, the Western news media has portrayed itself as a mere purveyor of objective facts: “What do you mean, what should they cover?” responded one member of the public to a researcher’s inquiry, “They have to cover the news. What has happened, what is going on, there is not a lot of deciding to do about it” (quoted in Lynch and McGoldrick 2007:260). Nevertheless, for Johan Galtung, father of the peace journalism movement, a biased ‘war journalism’ has overwhelmed the mass media (2006:1). As an alternative, Galtung in the 1970s proposed ‘peace and conflict journalism,’ or simply ‘peace journalism.
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Traditionally, the Western news media has portrayed itself as a mere purveyor of objective facts: “What do you mean, what should they cover?” responded one member of the public to a researcher’s inquiry, “They have to cover the news. What has happened, what is going on, there is not a lot of deciding to do about it” (quoted in Lynch and McGoldrick 2007:260). Nevertheless, for Johan Galtung, father of the peace journalism movement, a biased ‘war journalism’ has overwhelmed the mass media (2006:1). As an alternative, Galtung in the 1970s proposed ‘peace and conflict journalism,’ or simply ‘peace journalism.
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