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29523: Rob: (reply) RE: 29522: Kathleen (comment)Nat misdirection (fwd)




From: Rob 6969 <liberalproject@hotmail.com>

What does objectivity mean for a journalist in Haiti? Are Adams and Deibert totally objective when they report. Your objectivity in Haiti is always related to your personal experience (If you have lost a friend under the bullet of the Minustah/PNH macoutes etc. then you might be against the coup because you understand the consequences of the forced departure of Aristide. If you know somebody who hates Aristide because he was mistakenly not invited to one of Arisitde's Christmas cocktails, then you might want to applaud the right wing guerilla movement that created the conditions for the 2004 coudnapping.

Besides, what objectivity do you need when you see blue helmets firing blindfully on a few sheds hoping to scare a few bandits and not caring about the innocents caught in the fire. Who is the villain? The trained soldier who knows he is shooting in a civilian area? Or the civilian who should have left before the punitive expedition knowing he risked to lose his life or his baby's life. These are the real questions when we talk about right or wrong or just and not just.

You can try to be as objective as you want to be but you always fail to do so. Is CCN objective? No! Is Democracy Now objective? No! Is BBC objective? NO. There is always your heart, your experience and you instinct playing in. I say the only way to be as true and just as possible is to listen to your instinct and it will tell you what is just and what is not. Try to be fair !!! Not objective. T