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Re: lying with pixels



>>How about the ONLY truth?  I suggest that historians have always been
>>selective, anyway - how else to explain the absence of certain groups from
>>official histories?  And don't we, as archivists, decide every day what
makes
>>history, through the choices we make about what to keep and what to
discard?

Maybe I misunderstand the problem? This is not a problem for archivists as I
see it -- our job, or mine, is simply to document what happened -- and the
feed that goes out, regardless of truth or lies, is what should be
documented. But I suppose it would depend on where you work. Historians are
no more selective than the rest of the earth's human population. If you are
searching for the truth, you shall be searching a very long time. Truth??
Wha??? It is so subjective as to be non-existent, perception is everything.

We should know more than most, that much of our country's history, has been
manipulated, massaged, propagandized and marketed towards specific purposes.
So as an archivist, I don't see any alarms.

However, as a human being, I see huge problems with this capability, and
find it extremely upsetting. As a citizen, I expect video, or film, to be as
accurate as possible when it is depicting real, as opposed to fictionalized
events.

Jackie Saturley



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