[Episodes] Teaching journalism in the era of ‘influencers’

How many actually realize that fact is not the opposite of opinion but its very foundation? Opinion ThoughtLeaders

I always get mixed feelings when clicking that “submit” button to turn in my students’ grades to the university’s registration system. On the one hand, I am jubilant about beating a deadline and culminating a busy semester. I am titillated at the prospect of a semblance of a break in the days to come.

And now here come the so-called influencers – those who, by sheer virtue of their online reach, are perceived by many as being more credible than your usual journalist. Vloggers and bloggers and other big accounts on social media are not affiliated with any traditional news organization. They have no background whatsoever on the basics of journalism. They publish what they perceive the truth to be to serve their purposes.

Certainly, we will not win by the numbers. What we can aim for is the quality of the students we produce. I am personally guided – and comforted – by the following assumptions about our young people.Writing is just a part of the training – most of these students can write fairly decent in the first place. Preparing to write is another thing.

Third, they know that living in a democracy means enjoying freedom of expression, and sometimes this must be fought for. If they are dissatisfied, disappointed, or outraged at the way things are being done, they should be able to articulate their views without fear of retaliation, without being tagged as a communist sympathizer or a terrorist, and without feeling the need to censor themselves.

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