Today's news is tomorrow's fish rappings
This morning I was listening to the news in the taxi on the way to work (I could take the bus, but I’m lazy) and I heard a report about how people in the US are upset about the government declaring a code orange despite the fact that the information they based that on generally being three years old and how some people think that this was an attempt to take the attention away from the democratic convention and Kerry’s message.That was the message I put up on my Blog yesterday. They’re a little late, don’t you think? Especially considering I had most of the information about that on Monday already and I’m sitting in an office working (supposedly) on technical manuals and surfing the internet in my free time.
Basically with the inclusion of the link to the article about how this was all predicted a month ago I’m still ahead of today’s news and that in two hours of surfing through the big newspapers and a couple of insider’s blogs. Tools readily available to these people. It makes me wonder, what do the people who report the news on the radio do? Are they full time news reporters? Do they have other jobs as well? Do they not care? Does their news have to go through censors?
Of course there is a really big drawback to Blogs. There is no assurance of quality. We can’t be certain that what we are reading is true. I would have to bring up the point, however, that with Singaporean news organisations we can’t be certain of that either. Anything forced to operate under the watchful eyes of censorship has to be carefully watched for purposeful spin, if not outright deception.
So what is it I’m trying to say? I’m not exactly sure, all I know is that I was impressed by how far behind the radio news (olds?) was. I should pick up a local newspaper today and see if they are as behind as the radio. I hope not, you would imagine they at least would have the budget to have somebody scour the internet for tidbits of information.
Interesting fact: Sri Lanka has the lowest divorce rate in the world and the highest rate of female suicide.
posted by Symbol @ 4.8.04
2 Comments:
they don't need to divorce because the wives kill themselves!
That does seem to be what those statistics imply, doesn't it? You clever thing you.
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