Journalism Versus Cultural Studies

According to academics in the field of cultural studies, the belief that journalism can report the world truthfully and objectively is not only wrong but naive. However, they claim that the incorporation of cultural studies into academic teaching allows journalists to be trained to overcome illusions of this kind and to see behind the superficialities of traditional professional practice. This paper is a critique of these claims and a response to those academics who have disputed the author's previous work on this issue. It examines eight claims about journalism made by cultural studies academics and shows them all to be seriously flawed. They are either logically incoherent, ignorant of the nature of journalism, or seek to impose a political agenda onto the curriculum

La historia como ciencia social

Este artículo es el capítulo séptimo de una obra de combate por la ciencia de la historia: The Killing of History, publicada originalmente en Sydney durante el año 1994 por Macleay Press. Después de tres ediciones en los Estados Unidos con un provocador subtítulo –Cómo los críticos literarios y los teóricos sociales están asesinado nuestro pasado–, esta obra ha desafado al tiempo varias modas que parecían establecidas defnitivamente en los ambientes universitarios: el relativismo cultural, el nuevo historicismo, el escepticismo radical, la reducción de la historia a una forma de la fcción literaria, el postcolonialismo, el postmodernismo, el deconstruccionismo y el “fn de la historia”. Solidario con el numeroso grupo de historiadores estadounidenses que en 1998 fundó The Historical Society después de abandonar las flas de The American Historical Association, cuyo tradicional medio de difusión (The American Historical Review) fue controlado por  la  infuencia postmoderna, Windschuttle ha convocado a  la preservación del  legado  intelectual de la historia científca que se hace remontar a la Historia del Peloponeso de Tucídides, y que recibió con Leopold von Ranke los nuevos criterios de rigurosidad respecto de la crítica de las fuentes disponibles

Strange reading: Keith Windschuttle on race, Asia and White Australia

In his recently published book, The White Australia Policy, Keith Windschuttle accuses academic historians of errors of fact and judgement in their accounts of white Australia. This article examines these claims of exaggeration and distortion with particular reference to the nature and meaning of race, racism and representations of Asia in Australian history. The article rejects Winschuttle\u27s sweeping claim that academic historians have sought to make Australia appear a much more racist society than the historical record would suggest.<br /

The myths of frontier massacres in Australian History

In his new book, journalist Phillip Knightley demonstrates how deeply the notion that Australian society was founded on dealy violence against Aborigines has penetrated the mentality of those who shape popular opinio

The killing of history: how a discipline is being murdered by literary critics and social theorists

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