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Jun 18 2007

Impartiality - the BBC gets it wrong.

Published by peter under photojournalism, news

The 12 guiding principles in the BBC impartiality report, published in today’s Media Guardian. Here’s number 7:
Impartiality is no excuse for insipid programming. It allows room for fair-minded, evidence-based judgments by senior journalists and documentary makers, and for controversial, passionate and polemical arguments by contributors and writers.
Impartiality “allows room” for informed opinion? Surely […]

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Jun 13 2007

Elliot Erwitt

Published by peter under art, photojournalism

ERWITT: ‘The exchange between Nixon and Khrushchev was really quite silly. Nixon was saying “We are rich and you are poor, we eat meat and you eat cabbage”. Khrushchev replied “Go screw my grandmother”‘.

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Jun 04 2007

The Big Picture

Seadragon - an incredible visual viewing/modelling/networking app - from Microsoft. Very classy of BMW to leave their ad until after the presentation.

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May 24 2007

Videojournalism - the first 5 rules

1. “Be in the right place at the right time” aka The Zapruder Rule. If you can stay on the right side of this rule you can ignore many of the others. However much TV photographers howl there is a compelling logic to the notion that for breaking news the quantity of camera crews […]

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