As some who has earned his living for the past 45 years working mostly for
newspapers, I can only repeat what I was told (many, many times): Check your
sources.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck
>
> The more I read newspapers, the less I believe, unless I believed it in the
> first place (;-)).
>
> I last read the Economist in 1993, researching for a paper at staff
> college. I was aghast at the seemingly bigoted nature of some of the
> editorial, almost fascist in content.
>
> We have something similar in this country, other than the rubbish in the
> "red-tops". The Daily Mail searches out stories that might be of interest
> to the right-wingers and then ensures that the right parts of the story are
> placed in a column to appeal to the "harrumph!" side of the reader's nature.
> The Daily Telegraph has a similar bent, albeit in a larger, format.
>
> Chris
>
> On 29 Jul 2010, at 22:53, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> > Whenever something sounds too good (or bad) to be true it usually is.
> > I'd have expected some half truth coverage of this case from a randomly
> > chosen blogger but I expect a lot more from the Economist... but didn't
> > get it. I have now taken the time to read the entire 47 pages of the
> > judgment on appeal to the US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals which held to
> > the original conviction of the lower court.
>
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