From: David Lubkin (extropy@unreasonable.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 10:46:33 MDT
At 04:16 AM 4/10/2002 -0400, Harvey wrote:
>There are hundreds of examples where military claims were later shown to
>be false by the press. I can't think of any examples where a press story
>was fabricated and shown to be false by the military, although there may
>be some.
Not found false by the military necessarily, but there have been dozens of
instances where the press has been proven to have fabricated a story and
countless cases where their editing of quotations, or their choice of
words, or who they go to for comments, or how a photograph is cropped, etc.
has the effect of distorting the reality of the story.
One thing that gives me enormous pause is that EVERY time I have known the
truth behind a newspaper story, ranging from local coverage of my
daughter's work in historic preservation, to media coverage of science or
technology, to the reporting on a double rape/murder of neighbors of mine
back when I was at Livermore, I have spotted significant factual errors in
what appeared in print.
Yet I then read the rest of the paper, and tacitly assume that all the
other articles are accurate.
-- David.
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