--- In [email protected], Adrian Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> around the 7/9/05 Enric mentioned about [videoblogging] Re: Gov't 
> always wins the election that:
> >Does KKK stand for something different in Australia than in the U.S.A.?
> 
> no. and i'm *not* a member of the KKK, I was being facetious to try 
> to demonstrate my point. Since I'm not North American I apologise to 
> everyone on the list if it came across as poor or bad taste.

Ha, that is funny.  I had a problem resolving a KKK member asking not
to generalize about the New York Times.


> 
> >
> >
> >>can anyone explain to me how
> >>  this is *better* journalism than that practiced by someone at least
> >>  trained in some professional practice, a code of ethics, who (even
> >>  though it is dumb) at least thinks stories have 'two' sides?
> >
> >I thought objectivity was the significant factor in professional
> >journalism (getting mulitple sources, corraboration, etc.)
> 
> yep, which is as problematic as any other value, but this is my point 
> (and I think Andreas makes a similar point).

Actually, I think it's (objectivity) a discussion area worth getting
into at some point.  I think objectivity is to a significant extent
misunderstood.

  -- Enric

> A videoblogger 
> representing racist views - how on earth is that more pure citizen 
> journalism or more pure journalism than someone who at least uses the 
> benchmark of objectivity (which we can at least meaure against).
> -- 
> cheers
> Adrian Miles
> 
> hypertext.RMIT
> <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog>




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