Monday, January 12, 2009
Is the sky blue?
Language itself is blurred. The art of written and oral communication is complex and continually evolving primarily because language is evolving. Lines of appropriateness and truth in language will never be concrete as long as we are using a man-made language to describe actual events. Not only do certain words have particular meanings to individuals based on their experiences, but individual definitions of words also change frequently. The complexity is spawned from the relationship of words with emotions as opposed to the relationship of words with reality. A journalists duty to report truth will always be difficult. Even pieces of information that are considered to be undeniable fact can be argued. For example, someone may state, "The sky is blue." Believe it or not, someone could question this. How do we know that the sky is blue? At some point someone looked at what we call the sky and named it "sky." And then at some point, another person, flawed just like ourselves, looked at the color of the sky and called it "blue." Until language itself can be proved and made to be unchanged, it will always be blurry. Likewise, the use of the word "torture" is blurry in this instance. The journalist chose to speak through the mouth of other people to prove their point.
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