2002-12-02 11:17:12+00 by meuon 3 comments
I've been completely un-impressed withthe mass news media and have been looking for 'raw' news feeds. A good example why: Each side tells a different story: Islamic Republic News Agency has this story and CNN has: a slightly different version. It's all a matter of perspective.
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#Comment made: 2002-12-03 06:18:31+00 by: anser
i was waiting for someone else to comment on this, but the truth is that there is no such thing as a 'raw' news feed that is going to give you anything different than you are already finding by scanning and comparing, say, IRNA and CNN and Reuters. Despite what the patriophages at FOX and elsewhere would have you believing, there is no magical 'unbiased news stream' which feeds like white batter from the newsfront before being split, foodcolored, "biased," flavored and sprinkled by each individual news outlet. The only difference between the raw stuff that staff correspondents and stringers send from the field, and what you read in the paper the next day, is that the former is misspelled, ungrammatical, repetitious, and full of mistakes, all of which are corrected and smoothed over by editors with an eye on the whole picture.
If you really want to know what is going on somewhere in the world with no possibility of someone misinterpreting it for you, go there yourself. And then nobody will believe YOU.
#Comment made: 2002-12-04 02:43:59+00 by: Shawn
the former is misspelled, ungrammatical, repetitious, and full of mistakes, all of which are corrected and smoothed over by editors with an eye on the whole picture.
Which actually, increasingly, is not.
#Comment made: 2002-12-04 03:49:34+00 by: meuon
LOL.. Few locals believe me anyway.. and then when they realize I am serious about things they leave and start a conversation about Football: "How 'bout them Vols?"