"Infection" discussion [spoilers]

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for the episode 1X04, "Infection". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Extra reading:

The article for "Infection" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Also, Western media today tends to be very heavily slanted towards certain ideological perspectives. Now, there's no such thing as truly objective; everyone has a point of view, and in the case of journalists it influences both what stories they search out and how they tell them. Certainly, there are many journalists whose perspectives don't fit the normal politics/ideology for the media, but overall there's a definite slant. (It's why it's so important to get multiple points of view--no matter how fair and balanced and objective you try to be, no one can truly be objective.) Someone with a different perspective who tried to go against the grain (as JMS probably found himself) might not have had a very good experience, depending on where and when he was working in the field.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

But I think the problem, at least with this particular episode, is that there's no indication that the journalist has any particular slant or bias or insidious agenda or anything like that. The very fact that she wants to do a story on B5 is taken as evidence she's an annoyance.

[beatrice_otter]

Yeah. I was speaking of a reason JMS might be biased against reporters even given that he was one, and not referring to this episode's reporter specifically. Sorry for being unclear!

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Oh, gotcha. Sorry!