The Camera Cannot Lie, But It Can

When I Was Studying At Chicago And At Stanford University, Where Many Many Cases Of Two People Observing The Same Event Have A Different Take On What Happened.

In Journalism It Is Simpler To Sound Off Than It Is To Find Out. It Is More Elegant To Pontificate Than It Is To Sweat.

I Often See Cases Of Internet News Where There's No Reconciliation For What's Gone Before And What's Newly Arrived. That Training For Me - Which Was Absolutely Brutal And I Was Terrified - Was So Important, Especially Later In Life When One Was Faced With Conflicting Stories And Conflicting Evidence.

Journalism Is Not Easy. It's The First Rough Draft. I Don't Think You Need To Wait Around Until You Have The Definitive Thing. You Record What's There; Don't Delude Yourself That This Is The Ultimate Historical View.

What I'm Driving At Is Let's Not Lose Sight In Our Excitement Of The Democratization Of The Media That Some Things Are Bad, False And Ugly - And No Amount Of Electronic Gloss Will Make Them True, Beautiful And Accurate.