{"id":1412,"date":"2010-05-05T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:51:45","slug":"time-equals-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/?p=1412","title":{"rendered":"time equals wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

N\u00e4r jag l\u00e4ser fotografen Thomas Nilssons underbara och galna rapport fr\u00e5n ”mediaghettot”\u00a0 i Louisiana <\/a>t\u00e4nker jag tillbaka p\u00e5 det d\u00e4r seminariet jag var p\u00e5 f\u00f6r ett par veckor sedan, med David Cullen, Barry Siegel och Rick Warzman.<\/p>\n

Alla tre har skrivit b\u00f6cker om h\u00e4ndelser som ligger mer eller mindre l\u00e5ngt tillbaka i tiden: Cullen om skolskjutningen i Columbine (1999), Siegel om kraschen av en U.S. Air Force B-29 (1948) och Warzman om bokbr\u00e4nningen och f\u00f6rs\u00f6ken att bannlysa John Steinbecks Vredens Druvor (1939).<\/p>\n

Barry Siegel och David Cullen i synnerhet pratade l\u00e4nge och entusiastiskt om v\u00e4rdet i att som journalist vara den som \u00e4r ”sist p\u00e5 plats” och Siegel talade varmt f\u00f6r fenomenet ”l\u00e5ngsam journalistik:”<\/p>\n

”We obviously live in an instant information age, but even before twitter …there is a lot of pressure in the conventional\u00a0 mainstream news paper to beat the competition, to break the news, to be first.\u00a0 Some of us were always trying to argue the point of maybe it’s better to be last. To get the true full story. That’s what I would argue, I was always very conscious of the fact of how wrong we could be at the start. The imperative to be first is to me dangerous. So I would always raise my hand and\u00a0 vote for being last. The great value of coming to any story after the dust have settled. When you have perspective, when people are willing to talk who weren’t when microphones and spotlights were on them.”
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David Cullen f\u00f6ljde skolmassakern i Columbine fr\u00e5n f\u00f6rsta dagen och han betonade flera g\u00e5nger hur fel alla – inklusive han sj\u00e4lv – hade fr\u00e5n b\u00f6rjan. Alla teorier, alla spekulationer, alla rykten som spreds var fel: bakom massakern l\u00e5g en psykopatisk ung man och hans deprimerade f\u00f6ljeslagare och kompis, ingenting annat. De slutgilitga bevisen f\u00f6r det kom inte f\u00f6rr\u00e4n 7 \u00e5r efter massakern, d\u00e5 ett stort antal dokument, inklusive b\u00e5da pojkarnas dagb\u00f6cker, blev tillg\u00e4ngliga f\u00f6r allm\u00e4nheten.<\/p>\n

Rick Wartzman som skrev om f\u00f6rs\u00f6ken att bannlysa Vredens druvor betonade hur viktig kontexten \u00e4r f\u00f6r att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 en h\u00e4ndelse. Hans bok handlar egentlingen inte s\u00e5 mycket om sj\u00e4lva bannlysningen, men desto mer om det sena 30-talets amerikanska samh\u00e4lle och politik: utan att f\u00f6rst\u00e5 sammanhanget kan man inte f\u00f6rst\u00e5 varf\u00f6r reaktionen p\u00e5 Steinbecks bok blev s\u00e5 stark.<\/p>\n

Jaja. Alla kan ju inte \u00e4gna sig \u00e5t l\u00e5ngsam journalistik, men det var i alla fall m\u00e5nga kloka ord som sades p\u00e5 seminariet, v\u00e4l v\u00e4rda att kontemplera n\u00e4r ”mediaghettot” samlas till n\u00e4sta katastrof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

N\u00e4r jag l\u00e4ser fotografen Thomas Nilssons underbara och galna rapport fr\u00e5n ”mediaghettot”\u00a0 i Louisiana t\u00e4nker jag tillbaka p\u00e5 det d\u00e4r seminariet jag var p\u00e5 f\u00f6r ett par veckor sedan, med David Cullen, Barry Siegel och Rick Warzman. Alla tre har skrivit b\u00f6cker om h\u00e4ndelser som ligger mer eller mindre l\u00e5ngt tillbaka i tiden: Cullen om […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,12,16],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bocker","tag-media","tag-skrivande"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inglandstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}