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Today, we’ll look at perceptions of the war from the always excellent Arnoud de Borchgrave as well as some thoughts from StrategyPage.com. Both may surprise you. And we’ll look at the Reuters scandal from several different angles. THIS STORY IS NOT GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON AND COULD VERY WELL SPREAD TO OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS.
We’ll also discuss the role of blogs in the affair and whether or not this is indeed a “tipping point” for the MSM.
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Mr. Moran.
Great show, as usual. But I have a question. What is the real difference between manipulating words and manipulating photos?
Both are symbols–a word is a phonetic symbol, whereas a photo is a visual symbol–that (supposedly) have a referent in the real world.
When a word is manipulated, as in when ‘liberal’ is taken to mean “smarter” (as opposed to its real referent which is “a supporter of liberty”), its referent is rendered insubstantial, since most ‘liberals’ are complete idiots and don’t support liberty in any form but rather only leftist groupthink.
When a photo is manipulated, as in the Reuters’ photoshop scandal, its referent is also rendered insubstantial, since the real event the photo is supposed to depict never occurred to begin with.
All this goes to the issue of authorial intent. But the issue has morphed from what the author intended to say, or the photographer intended to depict, to his intention in manipulating the word or photo to refer to something that is not real. Which takes the current debate to another level.
Comment by GawainsGhost — 8/7/2006 @ 8:34 am