I am a Historian. I have worked with evaluating newspapers, periodicals
and other published stuff from records/archives more or less daily since 1996.
My level is academically Ph.D ; I am a educated and experiences university teacher. I help my employers win a huge law suit case last fall.
This doesnt say I am always right (most of you know I most often am not);
but it says I'm professionally used to treat written sources (and oral).

I would like to lift this topic from other threads.

I would like to start this (eventually long and interesting?) topic by saying
that you always have to ask yourself: W h y is this article written?
By whome? Why; in what purpose?
User "Phd" said this recently: "--- But would they announce those if there was a real issue. Anyway, if there was, AP, Reuters would have already published something." That's a good point! They are established and trustworthy news agencies or bueraeu's. When something serious happens, they sooner or later will do something.

I dont want this thread to deal with KR; but to allow a general dissussion
with mutual respect etc etc.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-05-05 11:28 by Baboon Bro.

And you may add the questions : What are the sources ? How are they treating the sources ? Why did they choose this particular way of presenting the news ? Why isn't there an article about another subject ? Who's actually capable of presenting news to us ( in the Western world ) these days ?

Interesting BB, but one hell of a subject.....But I agree that you have to ask the right questions. More and more difficult in a world where we "feel" the need to "know" everything the moment it happens ( : and here the understandable threads about Keith is of course a good example ). A bit like sex. You may take what's offered, but may regret it the next morning....

I bet this thread would not get some 15 000 or more clickings... ;0)

Anyway; thank to, NNB for adding these important questions.
Some of them are actually a little dangerous.
It can rise more issues on how easy it is tio fool us Enlightened Westerners...

And so this greed for news, this info stress...

More?

good thread.
we're in the age of 24 hour rolling news coverage, be it , television, internet or radio.
As individuals we make a choice (self-censoring?) as to what we want to consume, and believe, as fact.

Here in the u.k , we have access to multiple 24 hr rolling news tv stations, available on satellite tv.

From the BBC, which is predominantly, viewed and accepted to having a left-wing bias, to Sky News and the U.S based Fox news, which are viewed as having a right-wing slant.
For an Arabic take on events, we can tune to Al Jazeera news, if we choose.

We listen to the news we want to hear and digest.