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What I saw in
Behind the scenes
in the temple of
mainstream media
Artwork by:Flaviano Armentaro
Script/Photo by:Carlo Gubitosa
NO PHOTO!why?
but...
security!
next!
To taste a bit of top-level journalism I sneak into Cnn Headquarters in Atlanta for a guided tour...
Press Freedom?
thanks to my superpowers, i can take pictures against the rules.
The hardest part is not wall-crawling, but taking random shoots without seeing where camera is pointing.
independence from advertising?
While people is still being searched at the entrance, the others are left to see annoying ads.
But When presidentAhmadinejad appears on screen, everybody runs away.Coincidenceor protest?
In the corridors there is a wall with a big picture, a tribute to war reporters. But why the cameraman doesn’t wear a jacket? The other one is just trying to impress the audience?
no jacket bulletproofjacket
The newsrooom of
the HLN news channel
seems like a zoo
with frustrated
journalists trapped
in hi-tech cages.
I saw somereality outside!
I don’t get out since 9/11...
fairness in reporting?
Then we are introducedto Cnn website and the wonders ofcitizen journalism: clips of surfing dogs submitted by the users. WOW!
interactivity ?
To interview some colleagues I go to the reception showing my badge of professional journalist. But I am told to make a phone call, and calling by phone i am told to send an email. CNN people is unreachable!
openness?
What’s the matter with you? I just tried to make 3 questions:
It is true that in atlanta CNN headquarters have a group of editors in charge of censoring the news coming from war zones?
Why do you show like a trophy the SUV used to broadcast the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s statue in april 2003? Everybody knows that it was a fake event constructed for media and not a real people riot.
I sent an email with the questions, let’s see if an answer will ever come. But i think that this is the
ENDof the story.