But if you know what the spin is or the person who is giving you the
information, I think that helps....I do think people at one time
trusted certain, newspeople, newspaper's etc....I think for a variety
of reasons that trust is going away, but I do think it can come
back....hopefully

Heath
http://batmangeek.com
http://heathparks.com

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Cammack"
<billcammack@...> wrote:
>
> Nothing's believable, really.
>
> Even if information isn't being deliberately altered, it's being
spun
> most of the time for the sake of making some particular point.
>
> For instance, when I take pictures, I take pictures of myself, my
> friends and my acquaintances. Therefore, if you see the set of
pics,
> you get an impression of the party or meetup that's skewed, because
I
> didn't take pictures of everyone there. My goal wasn't to document
> the party, objectively. My goal was to document the good times I
had
> and the people I had them with. So it's basically a spin.
>
> Same thing with news reporting. You can interview 20 people and
have
> 10 of them respond positively to something and ten of them respond
> negatively, and depending on what point you're trying to make, the
> final video has 5 people 'pro' and only one person 'con', making it
> look like the vast majority of people polled responded positively.
>
> Unfortunately, you can't trust media any more than you can trust the
> person that created the media or was in charge of Executive
Producing
> it and signing off on it before it goes out the door.
>
> <http://billcammack.com/2008/03/06/295-reelsolidtv-s03-ep013-how-to-
properly-color-correct-a-presidential-candidate/>
>
> Bill Cammack
> http://billcammack.com
>
> --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Heath" <heathparks@> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting article today about photojournalism, but I think it
also
> > applies to video as well. I always think about criminal cases,
when
> > does someone alter a digital photo to achive their desired
results?
> > This is the stuff that scares me about technology, especiality
> > digital tech....
> >
> > http://www.newsweek.com/id/152989
> >
> > When a mysterious creature washed up on the shores of Montauk,
N.Y.,
> > in late July, it became an instant media sensation. After the
> > photograph of the Montauk Monster ran on Manhattan media blog
Gawker,
> > local Long Island newspapers were on the story. CNN and Fox News
> > quickly followed, hosting experts to hash out what exactly this
> > unrecognizeable being was. Perhaps a bloated raccoon, as Discover
> > Magazine claimed and Jeff Corwin told Fox? A dead dog that had
> > decayed for weeks? Or, the latest spin: The creature was simply
fake,
> > a prop in a movie's viral marketing campaign, and the media had
been
> > duped.
> >
> > The public's skepticism over whether or not they can believe what
> > they see in photographs isn't unwarranted. Just last week,
Beijing
> > organizers admitted to using "previously recorded footage" and
> > computerized images during the Olympic opening ceremony to
enhance
> > the quality of fireworks for broadcast on television. A month
before
> > that, a doctored photograph of Iranian missiles turned up on
front
> > pages across the globe. The alteration�an extra missile added
to the
> > image�was outed within hours of the photograph's
publication. "With
> > technology, you can make the moment anything you want it to be,"
says
> > John Long, the ethics committee chair for the National Press
> > Photographers Association. "Our credibility has been stretched in
so
> > many ways, so I don't think the public has a great deal of faith
in
> > us." He admits the past year hasn't been the best for
> > photojournalism's credibility but doesn't think the future is
> > particularly gloomy�it just puts the burden on the
photojournalist to
> > tell the truth, rather than on the photograph itself. "Just like
we
> > trust the reporter to represent what they see accurately, we're
going
> > to have to develop that same relationship with photographers," he
> > says. NEWSWEEK's Sarah Kliff spoke with Long about why the
> > credibility of photojournalism has fallen, whether or not
doctored
> > photographs are more likely to get caught these days, and how
> > photographers can reclaim the public's trust. Excerpts:
> >
> > for the rest of the article follow the link
> > http://www.newsweek.com/id/152989
> >
> > Heath
> > http://batmangeek.com
> > http://heathparks.com
> >
>