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What an academic hoax can teach us about journalism in the age of Trump » Nieman Journalism Lab
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26/05/2017 from
www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/what-an-academic-hoax-can-teach-us-about-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump/
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Alan Sokal attempted to prove that the influence of postmodern ways of thinking in the humanities had reached the point where academic nonsense was indistinguishable from academic sense. As a physicist, Sokal found writing about science to be particularly offensive... Sokal was conducting an experiment to see if “a leading North American journal of cultural studies... [would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.” They did...
there’s a way all this stuff actually matters for journalism... Facts do not, contra common belief, speak for themselves. Accuracy doesn’t matter unless there are institutions and norms with the authority to make it matter. The question for the press is how to make truth matter again.
there’s a way all this stuff actually matters for journalism... Facts do not, contra common belief, speak for themselves. Accuracy doesn’t matter unless there are institutions and norms with the authority to make it matter. The question for the press is how to make truth matter again.
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