Don't just trust what you hear

Don't just trust what you hear

Posted Oct 30, 2006 18:49 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Don't just trust what you hear by rvfh
Parent article: Brazilian government faces challenge over proprietary tax software (NewsForge)

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.

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