| Koppel: When a camera is trained on a live event, that is a miracle of technology when it’s broadcast all around the world. It has nothing to do with journalism. Journalism is the process of editing and sifting. It is the process of selecting and prioritizing. It is the job of putting into context. In other words,if Walter Isaacson [president of CNN] had said, “We have to be careful about. . . just putting cameras on people and allowing them to talk for half an hour on CNN without putting it into some kind of context, . . . putting them on live without knowing what they’re going to say, without knowing whether it has any importance, whether it should be a part of a news broadcast,” I have no trouble with that. |
