interviewed a couple of people from a Canadian reality programme
(which I will not name in order not to expose them) but I found out
that the parts that I was most captivated by where the parts the
producer orchestrated to make it more interesting. It seems like
without these fabricated situations, the show would have been even
more mundane than watching the log channel...
Casey
--- In [email protected], "Stephanie Bryant"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You should be doing that anyway if it's not a public place, event, or
> if the people present are identifiable.
>
> There was a case in Seattle a few years ago (it settled recently), in
> which a freelance journalist reported and exposed his apartment
> building management's discriminatory practices. As a result, he was
> shunned and threatened with losing his apartment. The case went to the
> courts, where the judge decided that, because he didn't have a
> contract with an editor, he wasn't acting as a journalist. It was an
> absurd decision, obviously catering to the people with money
> (preserving the status quo, etc.), and probably also partially based
> on the fact that the journalist in question is kind of an annoying
> git, on a personal level. But nonetheless, that was the decision. The
> journalist appealed-- the last I heard, he won on his appeal, but it
> took 10 years and a complete shift in the idea of "journalism" in
> order to get there.
>
> --Stephanie
>
> On 4/28/06, Casey McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Great article... Unfortunately, that probably means that we should all
> > start having people fill out forms to verify their consent of being on
> > our videoblogs (for those of us who make non-personal vlogs, under the
> > judge's definition of journalism). Great... MORE work!
>
>
> --
> Stephanie Bryant
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at:
> http://www.mortaine.com/blogs
>
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