Comments: Sloppy Jerks
Good point on not trusting newspapers. I liked the way Michael Crichton (and probably others) phrased it recently. I forget the exact words, but they spoke of the concept of the selective amnesia we all experience when reading newspaper. For example, say the AJC did a feature on Johnny Marr, and got several minor (but to you, the reader, perhaps major) details wrong. You'd say, "what idiots!" and then continue to uncritically accept the facts given in the next page's article on the Middle East. Makes sense!
Posted by zacharias d smytkowski at March 19, 2004 09:31 AM
Isn't generalizing an industry-wide trend from one wrong fact a bit of a logic no-no. Newspapers, much more than TV or other mass media, still have a high level of accuracy, especially given the tens of thousands of facts each large metro publishes each day. It sounds like the AJC screwed up here, but what does that have to do with the general accuracy of the Wichita Eagle or the Honolulu Advertiser or the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? Where should we get our news if not from newspapers? The net? TV? Blogs?Or am I taking you too literally, Chris.
Posted by Phillip Reese at March 26, 2004 12:23 AM
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