Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]dear mark, i agree with you on the quality of american photojournalism. it's journalism i was talking about and it is truly miserable. also one should be able to make an observation without having to be an expert. one can easily discern if someone is an excellent cook without also being able to make that item in question. when it comes to multiple sclerosis neurology, i am truly world class. and can strut my stuff with the best of them anywhere. it does not mean i do not know when things are lousy in other sectors or that i should keep quiet. recently i asked a New York Times journalist point blank when he was going to retract his article. it was incredibly badly written without even basic fact checking. his defense was that the paper he was quoting was published in a peer reviewed journal and so getting the facts right was someone's else's responsibility. but that journal did not print it in the New York Times. he did. and he presented other points of view so his job was done. he didn't actually need to "report" anything that HE found. now this is consistent with the PHILOSOPHY of the NYT. see- http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/arthur_brisbane_and_selective_stenography/ and http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/should-the-times-be-a-truth-vigilante/ he wrote "I?m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge ?facts? that are asserted by newsmakers they write about." apparently fact-checking makes one a "truth vigilante". welcome to american journalism!!!!! i emailed arthur as well about retracting this junky article. he has yet to write back. it took me just an hour to do the fact checking that he was supposed to. read it all here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/scleroplex/6811713204/ as you can see, when it comes to medical fraud, i don't just say one line and leave it at that. nor do i let journalists off the hook. most american journalists nowadays simply engage in CHURNALISM. as for photojournalism, i wish we had more of it. one good thing i can say about the boston globe is they still have photojournalists on staff and print their output every single day. i subscribe daily and open the pages in anticipation every morning. cheers from a "truth vigilante" ! :-)) bharani Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:48:51 -0400 From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] Is the iPhone the Only Camera You Need To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Message-ID: <CB9E5393.1C733%mark at rabinergroup.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" My hit on the state of quality of American photojournalism differs.