09-25-2004, 07:51 AM
Nice one Brista. :lol:
I do not equate what a minstrel or bard did with no kidding Journalism. News reportage. Modern journalism has, or once had, tried to create for itself a set of ethical and professional standards. Newspaper reporting drew from the Enlightenment's attempt to put a bit of rigor into history, to use the scientific method, and expanded upon it. At least, that was the aim.
The "minstrel in the gallery" as source of news, or the trubadour, or the bard, or any traveller-story teller as a news source takes us back to rumor as a news source . . . which is where we seem to be today, but the news carriers don't have to walk as far.
The critical measure of news, rather than "history" is its perishability.
Occhi
I do not equate what a minstrel or bard did with no kidding Journalism. News reportage. Modern journalism has, or once had, tried to create for itself a set of ethical and professional standards. Newspaper reporting drew from the Enlightenment's attempt to put a bit of rigor into history, to use the scientific method, and expanded upon it. At least, that was the aim.
The "minstrel in the gallery" as source of news, or the trubadour, or the bard, or any traveller-story teller as a news source takes us back to rumor as a news source . . . which is where we seem to be today, but the news carriers don't have to walk as far.
The critical measure of news, rather than "history" is its perishability.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete