Yeah, from my earliest experiences with the press (HS, really) I generalized from my experience to conclude there was no particular reason to expect the press to get anything right, and was sad that clearly no one else had come to that conclusion, even when they had exactly the same experience, that of every case where one was familiar with the facts of a reported story, the actual facts differed significantly -- or in one case, entirely -- from what was reported.
I'm pleased as punch that the net is changing that, and I do believe it is for exactly the reason cited above. If I know the real truth about the story on page A1, in column 2 and someone else knows the real truth about the story on page B3 column 4 and so on, and we compare note, well...
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Yeah, from my earliest experiences with the press (HS, really) I generalized from my experience to conclude there was no particular reason to expect the press to get anything right, and was sad that clearly no one else had come to that conclusion, even when they had exactly the same experience, that of every case where one was familiar with the facts of a reported story, the actual facts differed significantly -- or in one case, entirely -- from what was reported.
I'm pleased as punch that the net is changing that, and I do believe it is for exactly the reason cited above. If I know the real truth about the story on page A1, in column 2 and someone else knows the real truth about the story on page B3 column 4 and so on, and we compare note, well...