"So you have to worry if the juror or judge is a sports fan, if they read the newspapers, and how that might influence their image of the facts and the legal issues".
But none of the masters of ante-bellum America (not even James Fenimore Cooper) remotely corresponded to this identikit image of matter-of-fact plainness.
What Marker showed, with his haunting images and matter-of-fact voice-over, is that for movies, it is irresistible, even essential.
The most matter-of-fact images were all crazy, irreal, surreal, loaded with the fantastic.
(Ages 6 to 9) Winter's precise acrylics tell this story in matter-of-fact images: Taliban soldiers coming down the mountain to the city of Herat, "where art and music and learning once flourished"; a girl called Nasreen sitting at home, silent since her parents disappeared, forbidden to attend school; the grandmother, who tells the story, taking her to a secret girls' school in a private home.
That may not be entirely fair (Sweden is still one of the largest per capita foreign aid providers in the world), but – as with many countries – much of Sweden's image is a mixture of facts, half-truths and mythology.
But even the most matter-of-fact news images here are extraordinarily charged.
But even the most matter-of-fact news images here pack an extraordinary charge, and the strongest of them explode in your face.
Forer's casually matter-of-fact color images don't attempt to explain that philosophy, but they do suggest its peaceful effect on the lives of people living simply and close to the land.
Yes, in our selection of facts, images and quotations, in our characterisation of the real people we write about, writers of reportage do work in many ways like novelists.
