Introductory journalism textbooks spend a lot of time dealing with the mechanics of journalism production and walking students through mechanistic processes of story formation. They spend remarkably little time on the very real skill of critically assessing the quality and richness of the information itself -- how and where it was gathered, what was chosen as relevant and why, and what the instrumental processes of newsmaking do to meaning itself.
In truth, this is a monumental task. To begin that reflexive exploration, I found this video of musician Evelyn Glennie to be both revealing and inspiring to anyone hoping to have the words on the page communicate meaning and be of value to some recipient.
We didn't show it in the first semester but I will use it during second when we move into using radio as the core platform. What better way to start. :)
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