Haiti 1990–6: Older And Younger Journalists In The Post-Cold War World  

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Holohan, Anne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Media, Culture & Society vol. 25 no. 6 (Nov. 2003), page 737-755.
Fulltext: 737MCS256.pdf (94.68KB)

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This article documents how the journalists covering Haiti were divided in their attitudes and practices, and how these differences correlate with the chronological and professional age of the journalists. In Haiti in the 1990s there were journalists who had been working since the 1950s, those who began working during or just after Vietnam and those who were relatively new, who had begun working in the late 1980s. The older journalists (called the Old Guard from here on) worked a very traditional beat centered round US government sources and lived and worked ‘apart’ from mainstream Haitian society. The younger journalists (New Guard), in sharp contrast, were much less reliant on official sources of information and did not believe in or act upon the traditional notion of ‘objectivity’. They were also much less involved with the diplomatic and local elite. The middle group (Middle Guard) bridged the gap, working the official sources almost as much as their older colleagues and socializing with them, but some of them also included other sources, and expressed misgivings in private about the possibility of objectivity and the reliability of these sources. Although in practice the younger journalists stated that several of the middle-aged journalists were part of ‘the pack’ of older journalists the fact that they did seem to bridge the two groups in important ways merits their delineation into a separate group for purposes of explication. The older journalists were on the verge of retirement and merely remnants of that age cohort, and thus were heavily outnumbered by the younger journalists. However, documenting their attitudes and practices gives some indication of a difference along generational lines and some insight into the work of journalists in the post-Cold War era. I argue that what I observed in Haiti was a particular historical moment that captured a group of journalists which spanned several generations working alongside each other in a situation that caused divergent attitudes and practices to be evident.

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