Comments on: Adam Curtis – The Rise and Fall of the TV Journalist https://alex.halavais.net/adam-curtis-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-tv-journalist/ Things that interest me. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Angela https://alex.halavais.net/adam-curtis-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-tv-journalist/comment-page-1/#comment-203641 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:22:29 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2065#comment-203641 Love the video…good find. I agree with you, so many ways to tell a story. And none of them are necessarily correct or incorrect, because we all have our own subjective experience of facts. Should it really be a journalist’s job to “explain” the world to us, and should we ever accept a singular explanation?

I love the idea that multiple voices spurs discussion and action–more narratives and more information leads to meaning and understanding, right? But sadly, thinking about too many people I have to answer “stultifying.” The existence of a grand narrative (or at least the illusion of one) seems somehow easier, more comforting than navigating a cacophony of truths, as on old professor once put it. Perhaps this is one of the reasons we have such an awful trend of “reality” TV.

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