Manjoo Chapter 3

Chapter 3 discusses the concept of selective perception: two people with opposing views, can overcome their differences and watch the same video, with biases aside, still will not see or interpret the same thing.

I like and believe the quote by Hostorf and Cantrill, "'an occurance becomes and event' - it becomes something we notice--'only when that happening has significance.'" We hear an uncountable number of facts and opinions each day, we only remember and recount those that are we belive as truth or impact us.

This chapter, as I assume the rest of the book will, addresses changing technology. As journalists, technology is working against us, instead of helping us. Everything is easily altered, there are countless blogs, and opinions that are being marketed as truth. Pictures, thanks to Photoshop are being altered and used in journalism, which is ethically against standards.

Author repeatedly proposes that people will always see things differently. However, as he discusses Avery's works, he doesn't refute them with "facts" or support from the other side. He, instead, places his bias as an opposing interpretation. Which is fine, to illustrate his point, but to use it to refute avery's view, I think is not fair to the audience. He editorialized, so to speak. Even though this is not a journalistic piece, I still find it out of place.