A New Elena Story

SwiftBoy writes "Elena, of motorcycling through Chernobyl fame has gone riding again, this time to dig up the history of Kiev's fortifications. Interesting that after 60 years all that stuff is still there."

Comments

Re:Elena was debunked a while ago.

[Jason Scott]

God dammit.. who the fuck cares if she didnt really ride a motorcycle alone at chernobyl.. the pics are real and are still powerful.. fuck

Because riding through Chernobyl on a motorcycle would be inherently risky, dangerous, unlawful and maybe even lethal. When a person claims they are portraying an event, with photographs, they are implying they actually experienced that event, unless of course we're in the realm of fantasy. Which would be fine.

But if a person neither deliniates the photo essay as a fantasy or indicates in some way that you are not seeing what you are being told, then you're letting your audience down, and you're spreading, basically, lies. It's called bad journalism. Some people might not care, like you, my little profane anonymous friend. But a lot of people do.

Fool me once...

[Txiasaeia]

The first Elena story was interesting, moving and touching. Much of the comments on slashdot on the original story said much the same thing. There's something very powerful about a photoblog about a lone woman motorbiking through a deserted (sorta) post-apocalpytic town.

HOWEVER, once I found out it was faked, I was extremely upset. The original impact of the story was immediately gone, and I felt like I was cheated out of those emotions of awe and wonder. There's no way I'm going to go out on a limb again and trust anything that woman says.

There was a story here previously about the journalistic quality of blogs on the Internet and how they couldn't touch real journalism. I now understand what that's all about. IMHO, /. shouldn't be giving any credence to Elena after her previous scam was unearthed.