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The existence of secondary sources doesn't reduce the need for primary sources. Before something can be published everywhere, it has to be published somewhere.
by thaumasiotes 9mo ago
The existence of secondary sources doesn't reduce the need for primary sources. Before something can be published everywhere, it has to be published somewhere.
- throwawayq3423 9mo agoNot if everything is made up on the spot for clicks and views, which is where we're heading.
- themafia 9mo agoThe CIA was a secondary source. This bulk of this material is all drawn from other publications. Which you can now access in ways you could not before.
- anigbrowl 9mo agoWe get it, you can't see any utility in having this information aggregated anywhere in a consistent format.
- arrowsmith 9mo agoThe CIA World Factbook is a tertiary source.
- hulitu 9mo agoBut treated by Wikipedia as _the_ primary source. /s
- red-iron-pine 9mo agoit is an official release put out by an organ of the US government responsible for creating intelligence. presumably their facts are undergoing vetting and validation.
- thaumasiotes 9mo agoYes, I was surprised by the overwhelming consensus here that the CIA, which is responsible for knowing what's true about other countries, doesn't do any validation of the claims they make about other countries.