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Even more interesting perhaps is that I didn't know that, because I don't depend on news organizations for news anymore. Aggregators have been my default sourc
by pg 17y ago
Even more interesting perhaps is that I didn't know that, because I don't depend on news organizations for news anymore. Aggregators have been my default source of news for years. News organizations now have the role that weekly publications used to: they're a place you sometimes find interesting articles about things you already knew about.
- dkarl 17y agoHere's something published just today that shows both the value of well-funded commercial journalism and the folly of trusting major news organizations to bother with real journalism: http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/04/05/afghanistan http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/index.html?story=/opin... In this case, most of the major news sources simply parroted the Pentagon, but some bothered to investigate. Eventually the Pentagon was forced to change its story, at which point CNN and the NYT were able to report that U.S. and Afghan government forces accidentally raided a peaceful party and blamed the deaths of three women they killed on honor killings. Gotta love this quote from some American Rear Admiral acting as Nato's "director of communications" in Kabul: "You don’t have to be fired upon to fire back." He's either from the "What Would George Bush Say?" school of communication, or he's incompetent, or, if he was choosing his words as carefully as you would expect in such a delicate situation, he decided to send a damned chilling message, not something I want a representative of my government saying to people we're supposed to be educating about freedom and liberal government. Source for the quote: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7060395.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/arti...