It almost seems absurd, that this chapter is warning journalist to check themselves. The part about treating death not so lightly or in a humorous state is common sense to a majority of the cultures whether eastern or western.
I guess it's a self-check. It's ironic that a journalist who's so bent in on getting the facts, not misquoting any of his sources, trying to view the story from all types of angle, fail to scrutinize himself, his actions.
I'm learning in my readings how media people can manipulate the news , the story being told. An example of this was given in class today when Dr. Jerz, mentioned Michael Moore. Moore cited his source to the new york times. The audience assumed that the New York times wrote an article on this thus their facts were verified. But what the audience fail to recognize is that Moore's info was from a letter to an editor. The letters received were pure opinions (another person's unverified facts).
which reminded me again of something that happened in world literature class today, Dr. Wendland mentioned how in Haiku, the unsaid could also be as important as the said, or maybe more important or how silence could convey more (some sort of silent communication, an intuitional trade off)...
Posted by Michael Diezmos at October 10, 2005 11:00 PM