around the 8/9/05 Andreas Haugstrup mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] All News is Local that: > > Very cute example. But what you want is a Danish person living in the >> US, who >> sees the event from as closely as possible ... >...snip... > > neighborhood, providing you with his second-hand reporting as he selects >> quotes >> from interviewed witnesses later much later.
it isn't a cute example. It is what each wants. I do not want US news sources, which is why there are a (small) number of australian foreign correspondents placed around the world. And we have quite a few in Asia since that is of regional relevance. There cannot be Australian 'citizen journalists' all through, let's see, most of the world, that's why CNN and BBC World work. > >It's an impossibility. If something happens outside the three largest >cities in any country odds are you won't be able to find a Danish person >living there who is willing to give an account. > >Not that it matters. Unless you are looking for an account of 'how the >city feels' the local won't be able to give the Danish angle as well as a >journalist. I think any argument that wants to reify individuals as pure sources is just problematic. Apart from the idea of pure source which is, well, silly, the assumptions that individuals are better sources than, for example, collectives, should also be questioned. I guess the unstated idealisation of individualism needs to justified. -- cheers Adrian Miles hypertext.RMIT <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
