Subject: Re: Do we form or respond to reading levels? & New media skills From: wilt@rt66.com (bill wilt) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:08:07 -0400

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>At 23:13 on 15 Jul 98, kevin.f  wrote in part:
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>> Isn't it possible that the Web, with its links and windows and
>> whatnot, might change users' thinking just that much, just enough
>> to make them willing to pursue the details contained on the other
>> side of links, at least on occasion?
>
>As someone who always reads for pleasure with a dictionary at my 
>side,[snip]...

>Art is something that should be a challenge to understand, 
>and that may mean different things to different people.
>
>Journalism is communication, not art.

OK, so when Steve Brill "communicates" that Starr and his deputy have committed felonious breaches of "Rule 6-E" and doesn't cite it, quote it (it is a magazine piece, after all), and what 6(e) says is that violations are punishable by contempt of court, is it art or communication, fiction or fact? Would a footnote have helped his piece? Maybe even helped whoever edited it pull back from "felony"--which would have all the newscasters & writers co-breathers-together, in a RICO sense. 

...as a somewhat more recent example on the un-dead scene.

>
>That's not to say that journalism can't occasionally have an artful
>element to it. My personal favorite is from Time magazine right
>after Chappaquidick, in which Mary Jo Kopeckni was described by an
>Australian writer as a "rooter" for Senator Kennedy. With my added
>emphasis, you can guess what "rooting" might mean in Australian
>slang. Without that understanding, it looks like a perfect normal
>sentence. With it, it becomes a deft, [perhaps slightly slanderous, but as the tabloids know, "you can't libel the dead"] play on words. But it 
>communicated first, and only afterward went after art.
>

bw

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