Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The writer Ernest Callenbach, for one, has >proposed dispensing with the whole quaint notion of "Journalistic >Objectivity" and replacing it with one in which journalists make their >biases known, then have at it, allowing their audience to form their own >conclusions. Leave it to a word herder to attack the visual side with such a stupid idea. Nobody claims journalism, photo or otherwise is objective in the literal sense. And yet, such a proposal ignores the long tradition of journalism to tell the FACTS (or as us "quaint" types say - the truth) so people can make up their minds. How can they make up their minds reading purposefully biased drivel? Imagine people just speaking opinion without concern for facts...er, read this list! :-) - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "...nostalgia ain't what it used to be." ...unknown