{"id":2366,"date":"2022-12-15T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/15\/social-issues-journalism-values-perspective\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:29:28","slug":"social-issues-journalism-values-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/15\/social-issues-journalism-values-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Making good journalistic trouble, Part VII: Seeing through other moral lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: In a series on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/reframing-narrative-stories-to-help-solve-societal-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>making \u201cgood trouble\u201d through journalism<\/strong><\/a>, Paul A. Kramer of Vanderbilt University argues for seven approaches that can help create partnerships between writers and readers to address social problems. From his introduction: \u201cThe best narrative non-fiction writing on social problems \u2026 grapples with a particular social reality in order to question it, subject it to critical attention and convince readers that its existence and continuance is not inevitable.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em>The seventh and final of the re-frames focus on value-switching: shining a light on a situation in ways that helps the public see it through in new ways. Additional approaches will be posted this week and next.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em>Let\u2019s look at this problem from a different moral stance.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Of all the projects I\u2019ve suggested as a way to reframe social issues journalism, value-switching might be the hardest to pull off. Value-switching involves things that readers approach through the prism of particular moral frameworks, and the writer hopes they might come to see them by the light of different ones.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>It doesn\u2019t mean hammering readers with the need for new values: It\u2019s well-established that the more an author confronts or seems to threaten peoples\u2019 value commitments, the more likely they are to dig in as a matter of perceived self-defense.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>Instead, value-switching unhooks a social reality from the prevailing moral framework that surrounds it and tries to lodge it somewhere else. The writer may not depict the moral frame itself as the problem; it has just been misapplied to the issue at hand. In its place, the writer makes the case that readers should highlight a different set of values instead, one that readers may already possess in subdued or latent forms. If there\u2019s a shorthand phrase for value-switching at work, it\u2019s something like: \u201cYes,&nbsp;<em>x<\/em>&nbsp;is important as a value, but that\u2019s not actually what\u2019s at stake when we try to make sense of&nbsp;<em>y<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>In this respect, value-switching can be closely allied in practice with re-specification. By representing a situation in a new and perhaps startling way, the author can make it easier for readers to apply a different facet of their moral vision to it. As it detaches from the values that previously gave it meaning, readers may opt to move it elsewhere on their moral terrain.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>There are better and worse ways to do this. The best work exhibits thoughtfulness of value landscapes in all their complexity. What commitments might readers already hold that could enable them to see social realities in a new light? Successful value-switching also conveys that it\u2019s understandable that the problematic moral frameworks have been applied; perhaps these approaches are ones the writer also began with.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-image mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"New Yorker writer Sarah Stillman\" class=\"wp-image-9448\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-40x40.jpg 40w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/03\/40176ddc9b48c5f0308cd228bf96f69b_400x400-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sarah Stillman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/03\/14\/when-kids-are-accused-of-sex-crimes\">Sarah Stillman\u2019s \u201cThe List,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;a 2016 New Yorker investigation into the dysfunctional and abusive character of publicized sex offender lists, provides a demanding example of value-switching. Stillman is on difficult ground; readers are likely to have visceral reactions to the sexual abuse of children and seemingly well-intentioned measures put in place to prevent and punish it. But through painstaking research, she uncovers ways that such lists not only fail to protect children but also stigmatize innocent people, including many children, whose futures they destroy.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-quote mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>One of Stillman\u2019s central protagonists is Leah DuBuc, a woman from Michigan who was thrown onto the sex offenders list for mimicking sex with her step-siblings as a 10-year-old, imitating what she\u2019d seen in some movies. \u201cThroughout her first semester in college, she was dogged by fears of being outed,\u201d Stillman writes. Her boyfriend invites her to his home for winter break, and she explains to him, sheepishly, that she needs to stop and register with local police or face a felony charge. \u201cHer boyfriend parked in the lot of the Brighton Police Post,\u201d she writes. \u201c\u201cI\u2019m here to fill out the paperwork,\u2019 DuBuc told the trooper at the front desk. \u2018I\u2019m a registered sex offender.\u2019 \u2018We don\u2019t serve your kind here,\u2019 he replied. \u2018You better leave before I take you out back and shoot you myself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>In an adept, value-switching move, Stillman says to readers that no one is questioning the urgency of protecting children from sexual abuse. But that is not what is at stake here, as even some victims\u2019 rights advocates come to concede in her piece. What is at stake instead is the value of protecting people from fairly arbitrary, technologically streamlined, total exclusion from society.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>The primary danger here is that the author challenges readers\u2019 values in ways that provoke them to entrench themselves where they are. And readers might not be completely wrong in suspecting that, when asked to apply a different set of values to a thorny situation, they are actually being asked to rethink their actual values; After all, doesn\u2019t a key part of a value system consist of the ways it\u2019s applied?<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>But when it\u2019s done well, value-switching can create openings for readers to rethink the ways they connect social realities to specific values; as it achieves this, it can magnify the prominence, utility and authority of the values being invoked.<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-spacer mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"block block-legacy-page-blocks legacy-page-blocks  \">\n\n    <h2 class=\"legacy-page-blocks-subhead\">Related Posts<\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\" legacy-page-blocks-text\">\n            <p><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/reframing-narrative-stories-to-help-solve-societal-problems\/\">Introduction<\/a>:\u00a0Making good trouble<\/p>\n<p>I.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/07\/exposing-social-problems-to-engage-readers\/\">Exposure<\/a>:\u00a0Highlighting overlooked problems<\/p>\n<p>II.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/08\/immediacy-proximity-social-issues-journalism\/\">Urgency<\/a>:\u00a0Revealing the immediacy of problems<\/p>\n<p>III.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/09\/powerful-journalism-empowers-people-to-action\/\">Activation<\/a>:\u00a0Challenging a sense of powerlessness<\/p>\n<p>IV.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/12\/social-issues-journalism-cause-effect\/\">Re-specification<\/a>:\u00a0Reconsidering causes and effects of a problem<\/p>\n<p>V.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/13\/social-issues-journalism-that-expands-perspective-and-empathy\/\">Solidarity<\/a>:\u00a0Standing with those affected<\/p>\n<p>VI.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/14\/connecting-daily-life-to-social-justice-issues\/\">Responsibility<\/a>:\u00a0Connecting action to consequence<\/p>\n<p>VII.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/15\/social-issues-journalism-values-perspective\/\">Value-switching<\/a>:\u00a0Considering different moral stances<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/2022\/12\/16\/social-issues-journalism-narrative-frames\/\">Conclusion<\/a>:\u00a0The gift of narrative nonfiction<\/p>\n\n    <\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-spacer mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em>NEXT: Conclusion: The gift of narrative nonfiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p>***<\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-classic mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"  core-block\">\n        <div class=\"block block--core block--core-paragraph mb-5   max-w-screen-full mx-auto\">\n            \n<p><em><strong>Paul A. Kramer&nbsp;<\/strong>is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/bio\/paul-kramer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">associate professor at Vanderbilt University<\/a>, where he teaches history and non-fiction writing. He is the author of several academic studies and essays that have been published by major news sites. His book, \u201cThe Blood of Government,\u201d has won several awards, including being named a finalist for the Philippines National Book Award in the social science category.<\/em><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories that challenge value judgments and assumptions can help readers reconsider those blamed for and stigmatized for social problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"topics":[],"authors":[379],"issue":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays-on-craft","authors-paul-a-kramer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Making good 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