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Originally Posted by wtm442
Steve
I still would not blame Fox for AP's mistakes.....
.....I do NOT use the Internet for news. I do not think the "people" running the news web sites do as good a job as the printed press when making sure a story is correct.
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Originally Posted by VRM
Warren,
I do the same as far as reading a few different sources, I hit the BBC, Fox, CNN and a few others regularly. I also hit some of the ultra conservative and ultra liberal news posting sites. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle....
. ..To me, the Fox version paints a very different picture of what is going on.
Steve
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More and more people are using the internet for their news, a bad sign for classical newspaper profitability. Shown here is a suggestive excerpt from an article* on freedom of the press and the newer restricted phenomenon, blogging:
"Government repression in some countries has shifted from journalists to bloggers, with the vitality of the Internet triggering a more focused crackdown as
blogs increasingly take the place of mainstream news media, according to Lucie Morillon, Washington director of the advocacy group
Reporters Without Borders."
I do have to agree with Warren on the printed press being more accurate.
To me, there does seem to be (or was) a mad political scramble for airwaves ownership since the demise of the Fairness Doctrine. A lot of smaller newspapers were also bought out in the 80's, including my own local Bismarck Tribune. It seems very little effort is made to print, or air, information in a middle-of-the-road position anymore.
My guess is the Golden Rule. Those with the
gold will eventually make the "new" news
rules and write tommorrows history.
*ARTICLE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...601843_pf.html .
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