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Mon 2 Mar, 2015 05:05 pm
Hi everyone how can a truth of a state of affairs be paraphrased?
When the news presenter says that ‘the world is in shock’ because of the death of a member of the British royal family, there is a sense in which this utterance is the event, more so than the actual death.Of course, the utterance may rest on "the truth of a state of affairs", but what is never in dispute is that, at a certain hour, such a statement was made to the world. When we are told the world is in shock, we, as audience members, are immediately enveloped by such an utterance, regardless of our attachment to the deceased royal.
@mediaacademic,
The pragmatist would argue that both "truth" and "event" are observer-defined for specific purposes. They are concepts involving social consensus within mutual contexts. A "state of affairs" is like a snapshot of dynamic processes taken from a particular angle. For example, it may be for some historians (using a long exposure shot), that WW2 was an extension of WW1. i.e "world war in the 20th century" was a single "event".
Your forum name indicates that you know that media reporting is of course instrumental in "event definition".
Neutral reporting is arguably an oxymoron.
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