28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
2:52 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
"evan" <evan947(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
How about a local paper that frequently hyphenates the word "the".
Every article, no matter how long, is continued on another page, and the
page listed in "continued on xxx" is rarely the correct page number,
if the continuation exists. The continued section is frequently continued
again, and again.
You will find the same article printed twice in one section, sometimes
side by side, with different captions.
They also, apparently, never use a spell checker.
Then, you get to the content...
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.