The audience in the news
by Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer
Part of LEA's communication series
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How does the book’s central premise—that journalists are primarily focused on the news itself rather than the audience—change the way you view the daily reporting you consume?
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In your own media habits, how often do you feel like a news outlet is speaking directly to you versus a generalized, invisible crowd, and how does that perception affect your trust in the story?
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DeWerth-Pallmeyer argues that journalistic images of the audience are inherently "incomplete"; in what ways have you noticed media outlets misrepresenting or oversimplifying the communities they report on?
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