Re: [Leica] Still and motion pictures

["JeffS" <segawa@netone.com>]

Not so crazy as it sounds, think! Many times, I have seen corporate press
releases reissued, sometimes almost verbatim, as news stories, without any
clear indication as to the source, or any critical analysis to separate fact
from hyperbole, except maybe in some of the big city papers. Particularly
when this reworded press release is attributed to a news service, it gains
new credibility, and I think that's just plain wrong.

For what it's worth, my own bias is not so much to fear a government
intruding into our lives, as it is of mega media corporations who own those
who would raise a dissenting voice to their keeper, reining them in, not
from fear of being whisked away to some Gulag, but of being "downsized" from
being a thorn in the wrong person's side.

Jeff Segawa
See my photography online at
http://www.netone.com/~segawa

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
>>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?