{"title":"Senses of Truth and Journalism’s Epistemic Crisis","authors":"Perry Parks","doi":"10.1080/23736992.2022.2107523","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Journalists’ and publics’ relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth” holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse. People approach contested subjects from many, sometimes incommensurate, senses of truth. When journalists fail to identify the competing senses embedded in varying truth claims, they reproduce confusion as to the validity and verifiability of such claims and contribute to a rolling epistemic crisis in the public sphere. This essay explores six senses of truth – logical, empirical, affective, ideological, authoritarian, and narrative – and discusses their interaction and problematic conflation.","PeriodicalId":45979,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Media Ethics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Media Ethics","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2022.2107523","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Journalists’ and publics’ relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth” holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse. People approach contested subjects from many, sometimes incommensurate, senses of truth. When journalists fail to identify the competing senses embedded in varying truth claims, they reproduce confusion as to the validity and verifiability of such claims and contribute to a rolling epistemic crisis in the public sphere. This essay explores six senses of truth – logical, empirical, affective, ideological, authoritarian, and narrative – and discusses their interaction and problematic conflation.
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