Versión en español abajo What is it that journalism needs? That the people can put their trust in it; many years have gone by since journalism was invented to communicate in a better way among those living in a common place, whether it be a neighborhood, town, city, country, or world. Furthermore it must be said that journalism has been converted into spectacle. Journalism has become selfishly motivated, converting its' own journalists into celebrities, into "newsmakers" themselves, James Bond types who reveal the truth, or, like Indiana Jones, seeking adventures in far-off lands that, from the perspective of first-world marketing,...
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Versión en español más abajo. Greetings all, for some time now we have been deeply involved in developing our project and carrying out the audiovisual production workshops with the immigrant population in Philadelphia. The workshops have had a good turnout, and as you may know already from my colleague Todd Wolfson, the first 20 participants finished the course successfully and are now in the process of making their videos. The first round of workshops was directed at the Spanish-speaking immigrants who came to Philadelphia looking for a better quality of life; soon we will be screening the videos they have...
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