28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
9:29 a.m.
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
"evan" <evan947(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
You are definitely not alone. Just about every article I read where I
know about the subject is full of false information. Just the other day
I read an article that talked about how people were learning computer
languages like Excel and Windows so that they could get better jobs.
In fact, local newspapers are still the
heart of American journalism, and most do a superb at
covering their regions and small towns, in a way that
the AP or CNN never will be able to do.
Huh? Every time a newspaper run a story about *anything* I happen
to know about (not just tech), the story is riddled with
inaccurate, distorted, or just plain wrong information. I can
hardly believe that I'm unique in this regard, so presumably
for the stories that I don't have direct knowledge of, other
readers who are would would have the same reaction. Thus I am
forced to conclude that *everything* they publish is at that
level of "quality", or at least such a high percentage that I'm
disinclined to believe just about anything I read in the paper.
If the newspaper said the sun was going to rise tomorrow, I'd want
to find an another source to confirm it.
The only things in the newspaper I trust are the comics.
That said, I think television news tends to be even worse.
Yeah, but at least on the television news, you can hear them
mispronounce words too, not just misspell them.
Ian Primus
ian_primus(a)yahoo.com