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January 30, 2004

A different perspective on Dean's scream in Iowa last week...literally. This video, shot from a crowd POV, gives you a good lesson on how camera angles, audio tracks, and the like are all subjective. It looks like a standard energetic political speech, given to pump up volunteers and supporters.

Moral of this story? Everything is subjective to some degree or another. Any time someone filters an event (whether that filter is as subtle as deciding how to frame a shot or as blatant as what Michael Moore or Bill O'Reilly say all the time), you're getting a little farther away from "objectivity." The charge that journalists face is not to be "objective" -- that simply can't happen -- but to be fair.

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