Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interpretation beyond one's initial thinking framework is where taking other people's point of view into consideration may help. And because reading is brains activity, and so is watching, perspective may change in the course of reading/watching. Some call it learning skills, I sometimes call it intelligence, but I may be wrong, often am. Don't know, really. I'm more confident in our human nature than you are, or so it seems to me on that instance. Ph Chris Saganich wrote: > Reading and watching is a state. The interpretation of what you read > and watch is the action. A person can read and watch everything that > exists and will only interpret within their perspective. How can an > interpretation be made outside your perspective? I believe therefore > one would be hard-pressed to come up with an example of a person > making an interpretation outside what they already think. > > > > > > >> Or do you do what most people do, only read/watch what fits >> in with what they already think? I really feel sorry for you! >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov >> <s.dimitrov at charter.net> wrote: >> > I'm in the middle of reading Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker, 2008. >> It's a >> > history of the interwar period, up to 1941, using news articles, diary >> > entries, etc., from a pacifist's point of view. >> > It's grim reading, and an indelible commentary on journalism, without >> > "choosing sides". >> > The BBC strikes me as being virtually within the same mold as Radio >> Free >> > America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Moscow, Vatican Radio, etc. >> Meaning it is >> > a "point of view" form of broadcasting, with government funding. >> > S.d. >> > >> > >> > On May 6, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Philippe AMARD wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >> >> >> >>> Outside of the former Soviet environment, British journalism is >> one of >> >>> the most censored on the planet. >> >> >> >> BBC included? >> >> >> >> I must listen to Bejing radio immediately >> >> Ph >> >> > > NO ARCHIVE