Narrative journalism is all the mainstream media dishes out anymore, folks. Everybody's either a victim or a predator, and all of their news stories exaggerate along either extremes for ratings, for fanfare, but mostly for agenda. Know what it is & what you're hearing..."You know how often that word's now appearing out there? It's all over the place now, "the narrative." It's everywhere. I'm telling you, the fact that there was a narrative or a template, this was one of the most closely held secrets in the world of journalism. This was an inside baseball term. It was an inside baseball concept, and the news consumer was to never know of the narrative. The news consumer was never to know of the template.
The news consumer was to believe the myth that the news was the news, not the result of a narrative or an agenda being followed to its completion. Now the word "narrative" is everywhere in relationship to journalism." ~ El Rushbo 2/10/15
NRO excerpt:
What if the mainstream media’s increasing devotion to “narrative journalism” – preconceived storylines that fit a particular agenda or political or ideological view, almost always progressive – as opposed to say, “factual journalism” — is actually harmful to the causes they seek to advance?HotAir expands:
Yes, the media’s “narrative journalism” can certainly set the terms of discussion, bring issues to prominence, downplay inconvenient stories, and so on. And yet that approach generates the opposite results they want pretty regularly, doesn’t it?
Jim highlights a problem totally separate from complaints about low standards in news coverage. It’s fair to ask if narrative journalism is doing more harm to the public than simply leaving them uninformed or misinformed. What if they are serving up unrealistic expectations which, when unfulfilled, produce a volatile response?This is why many of us have turned to alternative sources, and rightly so.
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