Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications
Monique wrote:
> The difference is that, by allowing replies to accumulate and reading
> them filtered to +3, you have a decent chance of finding out when a
> submission was likely off-base.
That's what I meant by corrections. Whenever Slashdot screws up I can be
fairly certain that several of its thousands of knowledgeable readers will
gleefully point out the error.
> It's not uncommon to have 2-3 news items a day that completely missed the
> point, or misrepresented the point, of the article or technology on which
> they're reporting.
That's about how many I see in the "real" news media. However, since they
publish corrections only on pain of lawsuit, I can detect those only by
applying my own personal knowledge and experience. This means that I must
assume that many more go undetected.
It is my experience that the more I know about a subject the more errors I
see in news about that subject. From this I conclude that news reporting
on any given subject is no more accurate than reporting on those subjects
about which I know the most. And that's pretty damn inaccurate.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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