Staged, Staging, Stages

Despite every desire to be a the next Christiana Amanpour, I am certain that some days, even in my professional career and certainly in my academic career, I will not be an hour early with a camera ready.   I will miss moments and, on occasion, probably entire events.  And when I do, I will panic, as I so often do, about what story I can piece together with the little bit of video I have gathered. It is this reality that makes Werthermeir's piece so relevant to me.  Journalists are not perfect people.  And, unfortunately, their desire to be perfect journalists can sometimes blur the line between what is necessary and what is morally right.  It is important that I always remember that which Charles Davis has so effectively drilled into my head: a journalists first obligation is to the truth.  Recreating a moment, is no more truthful than creating a moment.  

Jenny Barrett