THIS. This is what I thought of when you proposed this series. It’s so connected to you and - past you, present you, and future you. There’s zero distance between the point and the effect of the point on you and on culture.
It’s the unreliable narratator in its highest and best use. In a recent conversation about Journalism, Michael Hobbs…
THIS. This is what I thought of when you proposed this series. It’s so connected to you and - past you, present you, and future you. There’s zero distance between the point and the effect of the point on you and on culture.
It’s the unreliable narratator in its highest and best use. In a recent conversation about Journalism, Michael Hobbs made the comment that he’s over the idea that journalists should be non-biased. (Putting aside the fact that it’s impossible to ever fully be that and almost never actually true), the message was essentially that is precisely our bias - our experiences w topics and themes and experiences etc - that make stories matter so much.
Oh thank you. I think that's definitely what I'm trying to press myself to do with this series (move beyond what the easy critique would be of each film, and interrogate my own relationship to these and other narratives), and glad that this one hit that spot well. Definitely agree that with the problem of faux-objectivity.
THIS. This is what I thought of when you proposed this series. It’s so connected to you and - past you, present you, and future you. There’s zero distance between the point and the effect of the point on you and on culture.
It’s the unreliable narratator in its highest and best use. In a recent conversation about Journalism, Michael Hobbs made the comment that he’s over the idea that journalists should be non-biased. (Putting aside the fact that it’s impossible to ever fully be that and almost never actually true), the message was essentially that is precisely our bias - our experiences w topics and themes and experiences etc - that make stories matter so much.
Oh thank you. I think that's definitely what I'm trying to press myself to do with this series (move beyond what the easy critique would be of each film, and interrogate my own relationship to these and other narratives), and glad that this one hit that spot well. Definitely agree that with the problem of faux-objectivity.