Journalism vs "journalism"

Contrast these two pieces. One by a big name journalist (Christiane Amanpour) for a major corporation (Disney/ABC) with a cast of thousands of Libyans in the background who get to speak in a sentance fragment.

The other for The Real News by Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk. The journalists don't even appear on screen or do a voice over. They just let you know what Egyptian workers are saying, thinking, feeling. [Disclosure: I spent some time with Philip a year ago in Cairo and consider him a friend]

More than WikiLeaks, more than my attempts at tough questioning of politicos, more than other strong interviews The Real News and other independent media do, this is real journalism.

Journalism


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