On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> wrote: > Being a participant is different from being an observer. The best > journalists viewed themselves as dispassionate observers. There was this > editor of the Wash. Post, I believe it was Ben Bradlee, who refused to vote > and discouraged his staff from doing so, lest they be seen as partial. > Although there are very few journalists of that ilk these days, they remain > the romanticized gold standard for most of us.
Around the 2008 Presidential elections Slate (now part of the WaPo group) did a series of articles on how the different Slate journalists planned to vote: http://www.slate.com/id/2203052/ Another approach (shall we say the Advaita approach) to the participant-observer duality. Thaths -- Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR! Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad moon rising. Marge: That's CCR! Homer: Looks like we're in for nasty weather. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
