Problems of Information and Communication in Journalism
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Sen Res Fellow FPAC Lahore, Think Tank IPC Wyoming ***
Communication (exchange and transfer of information) and information (dissemination of knowledge, also their interpretation) are essential for coexistence of people!
The matter is so complex that it is a miracle that genuine communication is possible at all!
Consider the communication in one language, then we know from our experience what potential of misunderstandings lurks there - and then the acoustic dimension: The sound makes the music!
If we then still remember that terms and meanings in one language are often not present or can have completely different meanings in another language, then communication is a miracle at all.
Thinking and language expression are conditioned through education and upbringing, - no one is liberated from it.
It also means clarifying individually our various prejudices.
A professional scribbler, say reporter, constantly dances on the tightrope, which as we know from the experience of life, is a process that can mean enduring disability, exclusion from everyday activities, and so on.
If one enjoys extreme liberty of decision making or authority, still; - nothing comes from nothing, the scribbler tries to report neutrally, but is not really independent from results of his work in the information market, as supplier of information and producer of information.
The scribbler has to think of his livelihood while reporting neutrally and still taking position on subjects - a magic piece.
Tolerance has to be trained, it is more than a challenge even for every single person. In Central Europe, Carl von Ossietzky (publisher of the Weltbuehne, Nobel Prize 1935) and Tucholsky (co-publisher of the Weltbuehne) experienced the "special" significance of writing in the thirties of the last century.
At that time, the distribution media were in comparison to the present times of rudimentary nature and the general public was involved only as a reader or listener.
In the technologically upgraded and digitized society of today, each one is a sender and at the same time receiver of information.
The processing possibilities here hide danger of falsification of facts with a wide distribution in real time. This can for some be pleasing in political and social processes but actually hides unimaginable potential for disruption for most.
Some aspects have been outlined and show the difficulties of being active in this area, to act diligently between responsibility and dependence, to function in information circles and communication forces and try not to perish, - an almost inhuman task that at the same time makes it clear how important are training challenges before an Institute of journalism.
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