{"id":58962,"date":"2020-07-21T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=58962"},"modified":"2020-07-20T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T14:13:12","slug":"journalists-and-photographers-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/journalists-and-photographers-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"“Journalists” and photographers in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Warren<\/a> considers the decline of boots-on-the-ground reporting and the rise of comfortable bourgeois “journalism”:<\/p>\n

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Andy Ngo after being assaulted during Antifa protests in Portland, Oregon on 29 June 2019.<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was a “journalist” \u2014 God help me, but it was an increasingly long time ago \u2014 my understanding was that the job involved getting into the riot. Andy Ngo may be the only journalist left, unless we count “talking heads” and “scribblers.” Well-informed, at first hand, on events in such towns as Seattle and Portland \u2014 where the bourgeoisie now enjoy their “summer of love” \u2014 he has been beaten up a few times. For journalism was meant to be a dangerous sport, quite unlike ping-pong.<\/p>\n

Alas, and already in Vietnam, I discovered that only the photographers looked directly on the face of battle. This is because they were getting paid for the pics \u2014 in cash, but sometimes in prizes. The people who wrote the (frequently misleading) captions were safe in a bar, back in Saigon, or more likely, in the editorial suites of New York. It interested me that the photographers were often rightwing crazies. Whereas, the scribblers were, generally, leftists to a man, or in those days, the very occasional woman. I liked to get my information from photographers, whenever possible, but the scribblers did not. In possession of a fully-formed “narrative” from New York, they had already written their stories.<\/p>\n

Am I exaggerating? Less than usual. My caricature points to a flaw in the meejah \u2014 cowardice, ignorance, arrogance, and malice, stirred into a rather potent brew. Then we had “editors,” to do the distillation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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