Martin Gelin i New York
Martin Gelin
Martin Gelin
En praktikant på Columbia Journalism Review pratar med filmregissören Errol Morris (som aldrig varit någon stor förespråkare av objektivitet) om hans nya Abu Ghraib-film ”Standrard operating procedure”:
None of your films has been particularly concerned with what we might call balanced journalism. In Standard Operating Procedure, the point of view largely belongs to the soldiers who took the photographs and were subsequently indicted. What is your aversion to stories that employ a more traditional weighing of arguments?
– I don’t believe that’s journalism. I’m sorry. [laughs] Take a clear example: I made this film, The Thin Blue Line, about a murder case in Dallas. Is the job of a journalist simply to have everybody weigh in on what his or her viewpoint might be? Or should the journalist find out what really happened? Is it a matter of indifference whether [the suspect] is guilty or innocent? Is it just something that we should have a vote on-as if a vote can determine what actually transpired in reality?
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Roligt: enligt Pew research center förändrades mediebevakningen märkbart efter Saturday Night Live-sketchen om Clinton och Obama.