Monday, June 13, 2005
but which side
Is it just me, or does al Jazeera reporting seem to be a bit one sided? My Arabic isn't what it could be, so I'm limited to either reading it in Engligh or looking at the comics, but the stories all seem to show one side - their side.
Then, I started thinking about American & European news agencies. I'm glad I've stopped getting my news feeds from CNN, Fox, BBC and NPR, but where *DO* I get objective news from?
The answer - I don't. There is no reporting body out there without bias, without spin without an agenda. What then? Do I just not care? When people bring up a subject, do I say, "I'm not interested in that sort of thing"? Never. The best I can muster right now though is, "The situation is very complex, and I don't have the neccesary resources to do a proper evaluation in order to comment. Let's talk about cruises instead, eh?"
Well, if that ain't the cheeziest answer.
Then, I started thinking about American & European news agencies. I'm glad I've stopped getting my news feeds from CNN, Fox, BBC and NPR, but where *DO* I get objective news from?
The answer - I don't. There is no reporting body out there without bias, without spin without an agenda. What then? Do I just not care? When people bring up a subject, do I say, "I'm not interested in that sort of thing"? Never. The best I can muster right now though is, "The situation is very complex, and I don't have the neccesary resources to do a proper evaluation in order to comment. Let's talk about cruises instead, eh?"
Well, if that ain't the cheeziest answer.
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That's the reality and I'm often shocked when American's (oops, that's me now) pretend otherwise. In Yugoslavia, we had 6 republics with 6 news agencies, 6 tv stations, 6 radios and 6 * (2 or 3) dailes, 6 different slants. So how do you stay on top of the news? Read them all, maybe not all, you quickly learn who has the added marginal news and you compile the picture yourself. Newsagencies rarely lie intentionally, they mostly omit, which is good cuz now we just compile it manually and get the 99% picture. Who cares about more?
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