pynchon-l-digest V2 #1844

[Doug Millison]

I agree with Cyrus, and have written about this on Pynchon-L before.
Historians, like journalists, don't manage to escape the boundaries of their
worldviews.  As I wrote several years ago in the Online Journalism FAQ that
I publish at my web site:

" [...] online journalists have the same influence on their audiences that
mass media journalists have -- by choosing which stories to report; by
choosing which facts, quotes, and other story elements to include and which
to exclude; by choosing to tell the story from a particular point of view. A
crime story told from the point of view of the victim will elicit a
different reaction from the same story told from the point of view of the
criminal, for example, [...]"
http://www.online-journalist.com/faq.html

-----Original Message-----
From: CyrusGeo at netscape.net 

No. That's why I never made that distinction. The problem, however, remains
that a historian's view is, unfortunately, considered by many people to be
"valid" and "objective".