28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
3:35 a.m.
"evan" <evan947(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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.
That said, I think television news tends to be even worse.