Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 28, 2006 21:16 UTC (Sat) by richo123 (guest, #24309)
In reply to: Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge) by wildman27283
Parent article: Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge)

Not to get political or to thrash the bleeding obvious but newspapers I read tell me that there is a Presidential election going on in which the incumbent (daSilva) failed to be elected in the first round and leads in the second. Both things imply a constitution and a non-dictator.

Stop watching Faux News.

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Don't just trust what you hear

Posted Oct 30, 2006 17:12 UTC (Mon) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

Stop watching Faux News.

Interesting. Back in my England days, I used to zap between CNN, Fox, BBC and TV5 (the French news). You wouldn't believe how distorted the same information can become, depending who reports it. I was always especially astonished at the amount of BS Fox could get through in only one news flash.

Don't just trust what you hear

Posted Oct 30, 2006 18:49 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

For the best examples of news reporting distortion, wait until "the news" reports on an event that you have personal knowledge about. They will miss or leave out important facts, present one person interviewed as representative of everyone there, and otherwise pick and choose the "interesting" bits, which aren't really what happened.

It's good to have several news sources. Between Fox and CNN and BBC and CBS, and whatever else, you can probably come up with a better approximation to the truth than from any one of them.