Reporters and Reporting
(eVideo)

English

Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 02, 2012.

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A brilliant program, this thoughtful and analytical quartet of videos probes the moral questions that plague journalists: What is the truth and whose truth is it? Is there such a thing as true objectivity? What does it mean when the same picture can be used to illustrate opposite points of view? What distortions are introduced by the journalist's own ego-to be first, best, most artistic, most insightful? These programs show how reporters have to contend with editors and producers who are concerned with selling their products or who want to impose a particular interpretation, and with the actors in the actual drama-who may wish to control or manipulate their story, or prevent its being told, or who distrust the journalist seeking to tell it.

10 & up.

Mode of access: Internet.

System requirements: Access Video On Demand playback platform.

Closed-captioned.