I thought that both articles emphasized that journalism is and will always be subjective to some degree. Obviously, certain sources have different levels of subjectivity, but news sources will always be influenced by the people who write it and the environment it is written in. This concept stuck out to me when I was looking for examples of photo journalism on Instagram. On my explore page on Instagram, I saw a post by @nymag which had pictures of different memorials for Covid 19 victims. The post had a particularly powerful image in which little white flags, each signifying a person who died from Covid, were set in a field. I thought the post was an important one because it helped to honor the victims and helped to show just how many people have been affected by this pandemic. As I thought more about it, I thought about how many conspiracy laden “news” sources deny Covid and claim it is a hoax. They would never post a picture of a Covid 19 memorial. I thought this was a good example of the subjectivity in news sources because even though @nymag posted a picture that acknowledges a real pandemic, that doesn’t mean that other news sources will do the same or even state that this pandemic is real.
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That’s a great point, and one could accept the pandemic as real and yet still think that @nymag was trying to emotionally manipulate people into a grieving mood. In other words: presentation always matters. There is no content without form, the form is always part and parcel of what is being said.